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...state, tenants are dissatisfied. They say the regulations--which monitor the costs to both tenants and landlords in low- to moderate-income housing--have been subverted in two ways: landlords are getting around the restrictions by making unnecessary repairs and then demanding increases to cover them: and relatively affluent people are taking the controlled housing from the low-income tenants who need it more...
...addition another kind of program, which would be extracurricular, but required, as sports used to be in the old days. The program would be a set of opportunities to acquire some marketable skill or craft. The occupational future appears cloudy at best, often frightening. Even the children of the affluent run scared before the incipient hazards. Perhaps a majority will be going on for post-baccalaureate further education, with their college years bent and often spent to insure themselves of entry into the most selective and presumably serviceable graduate and professional schools. A large and apparently somewhat increasing number will...
Like New York City's East Side, District 8 has been called a "silk stocking" area, meaning it is largely comprised of young professionals and more affluent residents. But from Back Bay and Beacon Hill, the area sprawls eastward to include the lower-middle class area of Mission Hill and the Fenway, where housing is a major problem...
...motorcycle escort service for weddings and funerals, and several mortuaries. Today the Hawkins family runs a loose conglomeration of 18 firms that includes nursing homes and construction companies and a 35-acre farm. Family members drive a BMW, Lincoln Continental, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce, and live in such affluent suburbs as Sherman Oaks, Altadena and Palos Verdes Estates. But Hawkins continues to inhabit the tidy three-bedroom home, American flag fluttering over the garage, that long ago replaced the wooden shack. Dressed in shirt and tie and black cowboy boots, he works daily at the grocery store. He gives birthday...
...more than 30 productions. But after seven years there led to "utter exhaustion," he quit and, amid acrimony over his abrupt departure, resumed the roving life of a guest director. Friends predicted that he would find himself longing for a home, and they were right. Last month, in sedate, affluent London, Ont. (pop. 255,000), about 40 miles from Stratford, Phillips launched a new troupe that is as ambitious as its title: the Grand Theater Company...