Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stippled with unsold condominium apartments -almost 18,000 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area alone. Demand for rental housing is at an alltime high, but construction has virtually ceased. Many cities are packed with vast, vacant building sites like the one cleared two years ago in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park for its still-unbuilt 39-story "Twin Oaks" residential complex. Some 900 construction firms went bankrupt from January through July. Many of them were small local outfits, but the failures also include a dozen publicly held firms that do business on a national scale...
...could once afford to live off-campus are retreating to their dormitories. In Northern California, rural areas are dotted with prefab domes and A-frames put up by young families who cannot afford suburban housing. Two young couples who are neighbors in an apartment building in a Chicago suburb are trying to stretch their combined income of some $30,000 by going in together on a town house. Having set aside enough money to make a 30% down payment, they are searching for a mortgage to cover the rest of their new pad's $69,000 purchase price...
...faster. As every homeowner knows, the key figure in determining whether a house can be afforded is the total of monthly payments-and in the past six years, the cash outlay needed to buy and maintain what is now a moderately priced house ($35,500) in a middle-class suburb has almost doubled. The national average bills each month on such a house...
...Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly...
...including many senior officials in the Foreign Ministry, scientific institutes and universities. Many of the painters would like to make that market public. Last week 20 Moscow artists tried to bring abstract art out of the ideological closet by mounting an open-air exhibit in Moscow's Smenovskoye suburb. The result was a violent confrontation between art and politics in which art literally took a beating...