Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...beleaguered industry's problems immediately hit consumers when they start looking for a new home. In Long Beach, Calif, for instance, Susan and Tom Ragan last week bought a modest two-bedroom house for $71,950. Hardly proud of his new domicile, Ragan says dejectedly: "We're just going to have to live in a place we don't really want." In Milwaukee, Jean and Ron Ross have been hoping to sell the duplex unit they have owned since 1972 in order to trade up to a detached house. Even though the value of their home...
...often carry price tags that drive away all but the superrich. In Washington, D.C., about 115 new houses will be constructed in the next five years on the 27-acre estate once owned by Nelson Rockefeller. Though the houses are only 30 ft. apart on the average, and prices start at $457,000,24 of them have already been sold. In California, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, paid $5.4 million last month for the 22-room mansion once owned by Movie Star Mary Pickford. Buss estimates that...
Walk, the first rookie to start a World Series opener since 1952, it was a little boy's fantasy come true: "This time last year I was pumping gas. Now I'm a World Series winner. It's the American dream. I'll take...
Even before a baby comes, start checking for bias. "Describe a day in the life of your child at age five, age twenty-five. Does gender affect your imaginings?" Later, beware of furniture that talks. Television's lesson that Mother is to blame for the ring around Father's collar may overwhelm the example of a real-life father's dutiful diaper changing. To find out how your children perceive you, ask them to role-play being you. Watching your children act out "the living room is a mess and company is coming-what happens?" can provide...
...began writing a working-woman column for the Ladies' Home Journal, helped start the National Women's Political Caucus and worked on the launching of Ms. Assigned by the magazine to do an article on nonsexist child raising, she noticed herself giving a basketball to her infant son instead of the athletic girls, and heard David, now an enlightened twelve, announce: "When Daddy isn't home I'm in charge because then I'm the man of the house...