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...body of the rent control legislation, in this case the council itself, can exempt up to 25 per cent of units from rent control as long as the apartments go for rents that are above an arbitrary limit. The clause was originally intended to deny rent-control protection to affluent tenants, who, it is argued, can shift for themselves in their plush penthouses. But high-rent living, the Task Force members contend, is not the same thing as luxury living, especially in Cambridge. Students living together near their schools, people who are looking for extra security...
...anew a difficult question: How should companies or individuals reply to news and documentary programs when they have a beef? Allowing them to buy rebuttal time does not seem very satisfactory; wealthy interest groups or people could flood the air with self-serving propaganda, to the disadvantage of less affluent opponents...
...free, by after-hours work. Simes observes that everyone who owns an auto-and there are now 15 million passenger cars on Soviet roads-is a permanent user of the parallel market. While it could take weeks to have a car repaired and months to obtain spare parts, affluent drivers can quickly get what they need by bribing mechanics and service-station attendants. A bottle of vodka is the minimum and usually compulsory bribe...
...Museum, noting that "nothing so fittingly caps an unsuccessful academic career at Harvard as recognition, however belated, by the Lampoon." But the Poonies got the last jab when they rolled out an additional gift-a $13,000 purple and gold Cadillac specially fitted out for the author of The Affluent Society...
Ford's waffling statement angered all sides. Many critics noted that under his plan, an affluent woman from a state that outlawed abortion could travel to a state that permitted it, but a poor woman would scarcely have that choice. The anti-abortion March for Life termed Ford's position "useless"; the pro-abortion National Women's Political Caucus called it "clearly regressive." Once again Betty Ford chided her roommate. She reaffirmed her support of the Supreme Court's decision, which took the issue "out of the backwoods and put [it] in the hospital where...