Word: vs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucky. It used to be that people who could not afford to buy a house at least could afford to rent a comfortable apartment. But that has become much tougher lately. The rent of a nice two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan is now more than $1,000 a month, vs. $700 two years ago; in Chicago, it is $670, vs. $540; and in Los Angeles, $700, vs. $400. "It's a closet," sighs Olga Flores, a Houston social worker, of her $350-a-month one-bedroom apartment, which she found only after a long search. The old rule that...
...occupied premises has been held artificially low. Worried about future controls, landlords have stopped building. Many are breaking the controls by converting rental apartments to co-ops or condominiums and selling out for a quick profit. This year landlords will convert and sell up to 130,000 apartments, vs. only...
...average selling price of a Manhattan co-op has jumped to more than $30,000 a room, from $18,000 a year ago and $11,000 in 1974. In Chicago, the typical condominium price per room is $46,000, vs. $30,000 last year. Demand is strong: all 280 condos in one town-house complex in Los Angeles' Century Hills sold out even before construction began. Prices: $230,000 to $400,000 per apartment...
...paid welfare benefits, like men; divorced women can now also be made to pay alimony, like men. But the court would not go as far as the women's rights movement wants it to, and treat sex discrimination just like racial discrimination. In one important case, Massachusetts vs. Feeney, the Justices rejected the argument that veterans preference laws discriminate against women because 98% of all veterans in Massachusetts are men. The court reasoned that the laws were not meant to hurt women, but to help a group that happens to be mostly male...
...Burger Court had been the law-and-order court Nixon hoped it would be, it would have overturned earlier decisions giving broad effect to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against "unreasonable searches and seizures." But this year the court upheld Fourth Amendment claims more often than not. In Arkansas vs. Sanders, for instance, the court ruled that police with probable cause needed a warrant to search a suitcase found in a car. In Delaware vs. Prouse, the court struck down random police checks of drivers' licenses and car registrations. On the other hand, it found no Fourth Amendment violation...