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...groups receive lottery numbers and submit their top three house choices to the College. A computer then numerically assigns the rooming groups to one of their designated houses. Students who cannot be fit into any of their chosen houses because of space limitations are randomly assigned to remaining, still vacant houses...
Walsh said that rezoning will enable MIT to provide more housing for the Central Square area, particularly for lower income residents who have been assigned 150 spaces in University Park. "The area has been vacant for the last 14 years and done nothing for Cambridge," says Walsh. The councillor adds that the additional automobile traffic will be handled smoothly by improved traffic arteries...
...lists to get into it. Public-housing developments like St. Louis' Cochran Gardens and the Montgomery County, Md., program demonstrate that well-maintained, well-managed projects can be successes and not eyesores or breeding grounds for crime. Yet about 70,000 of the country's 1.3 million units are vacant: uninhabitable while awaiting repair or occupied by squatters. The Comprehensive Improvement Assistance Program, which provides funds for the maintenance and rehabilitation of public-housing projects, was cut from $2.5 billion in 1983 to $1.6 billion last year. Surely it is cheaper, as well as more humane, to renovate available apartments...
NEBRASKA. Even Republicans asked "Why?" when businessman David Karnes was appointed last year to fill a vacant Senate seat. Expectably, Karnes was challenged in the G.O.P. primary this year; unexpectedly, he won. But since advocating "fewer farmers" during a debate, he seems to have lost momentum. He is likely to be beaten by Bob Kerrey, a former Governor, former Debra Winger boyfriend and Viet Nam veteran...
...truant officer said his agenda includes providing day-care for children in vacant public school classrooms, hiring a staffer to handle issues affecting the gay and lesbian community and opening more homeless shelters. He also promised to speed up the fight against drugs...