Word: turnkeys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physical design and administrative procedures of public housing to make that possible. We should shift our thinking about management responsibilities to provide for cooperative management or even ownership of publicly-subsidized housing by tenants. We should be wiling to test new methods of producing techniques, scattered-site development, the "turnkey" method of housing built more quickly and efficiently by private builders and then sold to the housing Authority upon completion. All of these possibilities are before us now in the form of authorizing legislation. We have only to use them imaginatively, so that the product of public action in housing...
Someone offstage is pronounced guilty of a series of unintelligible crimes, and in marches the prisoner, to be thrust into his cell by a buffoon of a turnkey with baggy pantaloons and clown makeup. Suddenly the two of them are waltzing around the cell together to appropriate music. The whole play is like that-sudden and senseless as a dream...
...NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The company unwisely signed some "turnkey" contracts to supply complete plants at a fixed fee. Managers underestimated the devastating effects of inflation. They reckoned that construction costs would rise only 3% or 4% a year, but they have actually gone up about 12%. Result: losses on those jobs amounted to many millions of dollars last year. G.E. has a big backlog of $2 billion in orders for nuclear plants, but probably will not realize a profit on them for several years...
...James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey who hinted of a conspiracy behind the Newark riots and charged that federal anti-poverty workers helped to bring about the trouble. Nothing like proof was offered...
...turnkey in the Flagstaff county jail, Ashurst read Blackstone voraciously, later took up the law. At 21 he was elected to the territorial legislature, then to the territorial senate. In 1912, when Arizona was admitted to statehood, he was a natural choice for one of the state's first two U.S. Senate seats (the other: Marcus A. Smith...