Both EPs feature a frightening creative flair, wrought through classy appropriations of house and techno sonics that suggest MANT are the type of duo that exist above any genre categorization.
"I realized, because housing has been a backwater, getting appropriations for housing is going to be tough," Frank told me.
But the group's opposition to three new appropriations for housing for the elderly has angered much of the club's senior membership -- so much so that several have withdrawn from the organization.
What do her appropriations of "Bleak House" and possibly other books say about the relationship between "white" and "black" writing?
Almost 10,000 workers have lost their jobs with the end of the shuttle programme and last week the influential house appropriations committee in the US Congress announced it wanted to slash Nasa's budget by $1.9bn.
The senators — Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, chairman of the committee on banking and housing, and Patty Murray of Washington, chairwoman of the Appropriations subcommittee on housing — made the call in a letter to President Bush.
As the federal government began reducing appropriations for public housing early in the last decade, the authority trimmed its staff, cutting 1,540 operations jobs from 2005 to 2009.
A woman at Starbucks, staring goggle-eyed out the window, mutters: "Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, dark roast, grande marxaccino latte, hazelnut venti assassination macchiato, frappé paramilitary house appropriation blend".
The Democratic chairmen of the appropriations committees led House-Senate negotiations over the first several weeks of the year to produce the bill, which freezes most agencies at 2006 levels.
The other rider, attached to the veterans and housing appropriations bill, seeks to throw unnecessary obstacles in the way of a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency on how best to deal with toxic sediments in the Hudson River.
Representative James L. Oberstar, Democrat of Minnesota and the chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, sent out a news release last month boasting about Minnesota's share of a recent transportation and housing appropriations bill.
