Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Builders agree that the March performance was no fluke. With the exception of January, when one of the worst U.S. winters in a century stopped building in many parts of the nation, the market from Brentwood, Calif., to Boston has been rising for months. Builders, mortgage lenders and real estate agents are scrambling to keep up with demand. Says Jerald Ruben, president of General Realty Corp., one of the largest new-home real estate agencies in the Detroit area: "It's the most fantastic thing I've seen in 25 years." Reports Connecticut Realtor Phyllis McGovern: "The momentum...
...Felix Alarcon Brentwood...
Sometimes in groups, more often alone, they swagger through Bel Air, Brentwood, Malibu and other smart-set residential areas around Los Angeles, ignoring keep-out signs, crashing uninvited into swimming pools and filling the night air with unholy howling. Hollywood partygoers gone astray? Marauding hippies from Haight-Ashbury? No, these intruders in the hills and canyons around tinsel town are, of all things, a new breed of citified coyotes...
...some irate Angelenos tell it, coyotes have not only invaded the city's ever spreading residential areas but are also wreaking vengeance on encroaching civilization by decimating the pet population. Local wildlife authorities receive a dozen complaints a week about coyotes making off with dogs or cats. One Brentwood Hills matron lost three cats in 18 months; a Briarcliff public relations man reports losing a treasured Persian cat when a coyote "trotted right up to our front lawn and casually carried it off." Says Charles Rosenberg, a stockbroker in suburban Sherman Oaks: "At 10:30 at night...
...some animal behaviorists theorize, because decades of hunting and trapping by man have weeded out the less clever and wary of them. Concedes Robert Rush, chief of the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department: "The coyotes have a lot of smarts. They can get water out of a pool in Brentwood while the pet dog is sleeping inside...