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Soon after the assessment, several local landlords took the rent control board to court in an attempt to force the board to alter the formula. The Cambridge District Court upheld the formula, which does not affect the right of landlords to seek increases based on each property's real operating cost. HRE, which did not participate in the lawsuit, is expected to win its rent increases if it proves that the three buildings' real operating costs are greater than the assessed costs...
...terrorists and the states that sponsor them are made to pay a price in kind. In his televised address following the raid, the President asserted that the air strike "will not only diminish Colonel Gaddafi's capacity to export terror, it will provide him with incentives and reasons to alter his criminal behavior." That argument won the support of only three U.S. allies: Britain, which gave permission for the F-111s to use English bases, Canada and Israel. All the others at minimum counseled against a raid; France and Spain went further, vexing U.S. opinion by refusing...
...HEAT of it all, Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis finally signaled to the frustrated docs that the system would change. It looks like that promise may well come true. A 58-page bill now going before the state legislature will, if passed, vastly alter the structure of the medical malpractice system, by rescheduling insurance payments, limiting delays before malpractice suits, restricting lawyers' contingency fees, and cutting down "pain and suffering" judgments...
Americans must also urge their national leaders to stop competing for control of other countries, such as Nicaragua and Angola, Galbraith said. While Americans may be averse to the governments of the two countries, "It is not for us and the Russians to alter their fates," he said...
...zoning amendment is designed "to respond to the unique problems and pressures for change particular to the Harvard Square area," the proposal says. "The regulations provide for more careful public scrutiny of development proposals that may alter the established urban form of the Harvard Square area...