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...Those who don't want to change rent control are rigid because many of their supporters benefit [from rent control]," said SPOA President Peter Sheinfeld. "Rent control has caused homelessness and its own black market--we don't want to abolish rent control, we just want to refinance...
...They assured me that there was no possibility that the appointment process would be affected in any way by the fund," he said. "If it ever became a tenure issue I'd abolish...
...understand that truth. Part of what deters conventional war in Europe is the possibility that such a conflict would escalate to general nuclear war. That is why our allies were so concerned when President Reagan, during his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, was willing to abolish nuclear weapons and thus abandon nuclear deterrence altogether...
Although he is a diabetic who gives himself a shot of insulin twice a day, Roemer has been working 14-hour days seven days a week. He is trying to abolish 100 of the state's 415 boards and commissions while cutting 16,000 people from the state's 75,000-person payroll over four years. He is pressing for tighter environmental laws and increased spending for education, including a 5% pay raise for teachers...
...come from a small country that was not afraid to abolish its army to become stronger. In my country there is not one tank, not one cannon and not one warship or helicopter gunship. We love democracy and respect the law," Arias said in that speech...