Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan to provide direct subsidies, for rent or mortgage payments, for some 500,000 city families with incomes as high as $8,000 a year. Initially, the aid would be limited to families displaced by Government projects such as urban renewal and highway construction, to those presently in substandard housing, to the impoverished elderly, and to displaced or ill-housed families capable of increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would make up any necessary difference. Critics might wonder...
...plastic intrauterine devices that have proved successful in limiting human pregnancies may provide one answer to India's problem of unwanted reproduction on the part of the 40 million ownerless, hungry, scavenging, substandard, unproductive but nonetheless revered cattle that roam the country... Because castration is almost as unacceptable to Hindus as slaughter, Frank W. Parker, a U.S. Government rural redevelopment specialist long stationed in India, hit on the alternative idea of contraception. At this suggestion animal husbandry experts at the Beltsville, Md, research center of the Department of Agriculture recently equipped 18 cows with plastic spirals and then attempted artificial...
Harvard's epee fencers turned in a substandard performance and won only three of their matches. Senior Jeremy Keller moved up into the third epee spot for the day, but after he lost his first two matches, he was replaced by Paul Mundie. Mundie barely avoided a fight with his aggressive CCNY opponent but finally won the match...
...apartment buildings rise from a platform two stories high; the covered area underneath will be used for parking, and will also serve as a pedestrian galleria of shops. San Francisco also has its own conservation program for neighborhoods of old houses that are going downhill, though not yet seriously substandard. In the first of these, the Pacific Heights area, almost all of 146 blight-touched buildings are now com pletely restored...
...almost did not come off. There was considerable opposition to reclaiming the area, which was not really substandard, though a number of flophouses there were attracting more and more derelicts. Then there was trouble raising the money to develop the land after buying and clearing it with URA assistance. At this point, the Travelers Insurance Co. stepped in to bankroll the whole $35 million needed. Its motives were solidly self-interested; Travelers' own nearby building, the tallest in town, gave the company a stake in the central city area, which had been rapidly losing business of all kinds...