Word: vacant
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...relationship with the industry has been suspect since 1974, when the agency rose from the ashes of the old Atomic Energy Commission, whose mandate was to promote nuclear power. The industry vetoes commission nominees it deems too hostile (two of five NRC seats are vacant), and agency officials enjoy a revolving door to good jobs at nuclear companies such as Northeast. "The fox is guarding the henhouse," says Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, who is pushing legislation to create an independent nuclear safety board outside the NRC. The Democrat, who is also calling for a federal investigation of NRC effectiveness, believes...
...present, the Shops By Harvard Yard are comprised of Harvard-related stores, privately owned stores, vacant stores and roughly 10 kiosks. As of July, all kiosk leases and some store leases will not be renewed. The arcade will then be renovated, and when it reopens, it will consist almost entirely of university-related shops and services. Some private stores that "complement" the Harvard ones will also occupy the arcade, according to HPRE Director of University and Commercial Properties Scott Levitan...
...Ending weeks of speculation, the White House announced that President Clinton will nominate Alan Greenspan to a third term as Federal Reserve Chairman. The President also chose White House budget director Alice Rivlin for the number two position at the Fed, and economist Laurence Meyer to fill the third vacant spot on the seven-member board. The choice to renominate the highly popular Greenspan was a difficult one for a President frustrated by Greenspan's refusal to lower interest rates for fear of causing runaway inflation. Clinton has pushed hard for a lowering of rates to try to jump start...
...questionable zip codes, lenders have not come as far as they promised. Of 1,100 structures that were destroyed or damaged during the riots, about half were rebuilt with the help of loans, insurance money or the owner's own funds. Of the remaining half, about 250 are still vacant lots. "He's not atypical," says Linda Griego, a former L.A. deputy mayor who is now president of RLA, a redevelopment organization formed just weeks after the riots. "There were others like him who every time they took two steps forward went back...
...loan discrimination against minority neighborhoods). First Interstate then offered $585,000, on the condition that Payne put up his lot and $100,000 of his mother's property as collateral. Even so, Payne is still about $350,000 shy of what he needs to begin construction--and losing ground. Vacant, the land is declining in value. "It puts the applicant on a slippery slope," says Payne. "I have no income, I have no building, and I have a debt of more than $1,000 a month I hadn't had before the riots...