Word: wares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...villain in Mrs. Ware's case is a tax law enacted by the Illinois legislature two decades ago. Drafted with the help of real estate operators, the measure authorizes local governments to auction off a two-month-overdue property-tax bill-if the owner does not respond to a warning notice within three weeks. The buyer of the overdue bill can take full title to the property two years later-again, after giving notice -if the owner has paid no part of the taxes or the interest. Ostensibly, the law is meant to provide an incentive for private enforcement...
...snatches the deed to her home from the poor heroine, the movie villain always sneers that "it's all perfectly legal." In real life, eviction can be just as cruel. One spring day in 1972 when some prospective buyers stopped by, Lillian K. Ware, 58, a black private nurse, learned for the first time that she no longer owned her $25,000 home in Evanston, Ill.; the title had been taken over some months before by a local real estate speculator. Barring some legal miracle, Mrs. Ware's subsequent two-year court battle against tough lawyers...
...backhand and crisp volleys. However, Lindner easily won the third set. Harvard breezed through the number two, three and four matches as junior John Ingard vanquished Charles Einsiedler, 6-2, 6-2, and sophomore Gary Reiner routed Tom Koerner, 6-3, 6-1. Veteran junior Chip Baird defeated Jim Ware, 6-4, 6-2, in what Baird called a "blase match...
...number-two doubles match Baird and Reiner easily beat Ware and Talbert, 6-3, 6-4. Charles Kursen and Hyde struggled past Hearsh and David Tillman...
Everett E. Ware, director of the EEOC, also said this week that by federal statute he could not comment on the conciliation proceedings...