Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...anything I hate, it's being hugged and kissed by a woman.") But the peculiarly economical and decorous motions of a farming community, miles from any city, continued. And the splendid flat landscape of fields, thickets and wildlife was intact on all sides-briefly tolerant of the occasional trailer or other frail platform of human hope. Jimmy flew here election dawn to cast his own ballot, already informed of imminent failure; and in a greeting to his home-town supporters at the depot, the break in his voice seemed an understandable response to their continued loyalty in the face...
Housing is probably the town's most urgent need. An aging, one-story house costs $80,000; there are so few places to rent that a resident who offered to lease his chicken coop for $85 a month promptly found a tenant. The town's 2,500 trailer spaces are filled, and the waiting list runs into the hundreds. Doug Melton, 26, moved from California several months ago and works as an oilfield laborer, but he and his brother David live in a tepee seven miles out of town. Says Melton: "No way am I going...
Andrew and Karen Sefcik are living in a trailer park and trying desperately to create some financial stability for themselves. Andrew has been out of work for more than a year, but has just started training, under a federal grant, as a nurse...
...only interested in selling millions of copies," contends Bob Say, the head of the west coast branch of Jem Records, the largest distributor of import records in America. Jem started in 1971 as a three-man operation pushing a catalogue dominated by progressive rock albums out of a house trailer in New Jersey. Their business mushroomed dramatically when the major American labels turned their backs on the punk bands emerging in England three years...
Last Thursday, papers arrived in the Boston area late because an axle broke on the Times trailer as it was on its way from New York, Bertaccini added...