Word: united
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time residents, the problem seems to be less the buying binge than the perception that their neighborhoods are being offered on international markets far removed from local buyers. The unease crested last December, when condominium units developed in Vancouver by Li were snapped up in Hong Kong within 2 1/2 hours of the offering -- before they were even put up for sale in Canada. Says Susan Alexander, a member of a local group that is demanding stiffer government controls on foreign real estate buyers: "Our housing is being treated like a commodity on the stock exchange." Alexander is being evicted...
...guess that's why the following question appeared, without a trace of irony, on a recent unit test: "Are there costs of unemployment...
...seemed evident among brokers last week. "If you can survive this period in the business," a Chicago moneyman said, "you can survive just about anything." But some managers saw no end to hard times. Mused Desmond Heathwood, chief investment officer of the Los Angeles branch of Boston Co., a unit of Shearson Lehman: "To have one's job will be the bonus this year...
Capt. Brian Mazerski, Air Force ROTC's publicaffairs officer, said the Air Force would beunlikely to start a Harvard unit because of thepaucity of Air Force ROTC students at the schooland the cost of creating a new program. "I thinkit would be pretty costly," he said. "I don'tforsee it even if there is a want to do that...
Only the Army's ROTC expressed an interest inestablishing a unit at Harvard Lt. Col. Edward D.Hammond, director of MIT's Army ROTC unit, said hewould favor the creation of a new detachment atHarvard...