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People of more modest means who are searching for a detached house in the suburbs must sometimes settle for depressingly spartan structures. To hold down prices, one major builder in Gwinnett County, Ga., 20 miles north of Atlanta, sells $70,000 houses with up to one-third of the interior space unfinished. Owners can complete the rooms later, when they have the money. Bathroom and kitchen floors are covered with vinyl instead of tile, and closets have sliding doors made out of a light plastic material rather than wood. Boston Builder Anthony Lapuma has turned out the first half dozen...
...martial law. Aquino relishes his freedom after years of confinement--he can hardly wait for the next CfIA colloquium or seminar or class. His office has an eerily empty quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with...
Retail-sales analysts predict that the spartan stores will continue expanding, as consumers look for new ways to beat inflation. Says Walter Loeb, food and retail analyst with New York's Morgan Stanley: "We have seen waves of warehouse stores before. A & P unsuccessfully tried it a few years ago. But now they are doing better and selling fresh produce, some dairy products and meat...
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...years at Cambridge, the great don thereafter took his daily "stroll" forced-march style, a spartan, slender man of sorrowful visage with pale eyes and drooping gray mustache...