Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...electorate outlaws rent control, the ban would affect 16,000 Cambridge households--half its rental stock--and a quarter of the city's population, said Terry Morris, executive director of the city's Rent Control Board...
...decision represents a major victory for group seeking to ban the price ceilings. Activists had made several unsuccessful attempts to end rent control through the State Legislature and various city councils...
...court ruled that the rent control ban is not simply a local issue. In the nine-page decision, the court noted that the it is "within the power of a municipality to enact a rent control program only when the [State] Legislature has explicitly delegated that power to the municipality...
Citizens grappling over rent control face a key decision as soon as this week, when a Supreme Judicial Court ruling will determine whether voters will get the chance to ban the price ceilings from Massachusetts...
...Kaysen was plunked into McLean by a psychiatrist who had met her only half an hour earlier. "You need a rest," he told her, promising a stay of several weeks. Instead she spent two years in a "parallel universe," a sorority house of sorts, but with barred windows, a ban on sharp objects and constant monitoring. "We ate with plastic," writes Kaysen of McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor and eventually a self-educated writer. She also learned to live with her own distinctive personality...