Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the improvements, the main reason people live in these units is still price. Where else could Mark Bronson, 32, a social worker in Kennewick, Wash., who earns $16,000 a year, get a two-bedroom house, complete with wall-to-wall carpeting, built-in appliances and other furnishings, that costs $20,000? Says his wife Janice, 27: "Our home is part of the American dream, on a lesser plane...
...house that is firmly planted in the ground. Nice as their mobile home has been in the economic pinch, Janice Bronson, for one, would welcome the switch. Says she: "This one does not have a sense of permanence. For one thing, when I run a load of wash, I can't have a record playing; the whole house shakes...
...lives in a posh St. Louis suburb, next door to a restaurateur for whom he used to work as a cook. Says he: "They can't tell me this isn't a great country. Where else could this kind of thing happen to someone who used to wash dishes...
...bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will be added next year...
...have included a broad range of the powerful, rich and famous in America. King interviewed President Gerald Ford in the midst of the confusion at the 1980 Republican national convention. He was the first interviewer in America to speak with a returned hostage from Iran. Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) drove to the radio studio at three o'clock in the morning and blasted President Jimmy Carter the night the news broke of the aborted attempt to rescue the hostages...