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Other issues come and go, but the city's rent control system remains as controversial today as the day it was enacted. And in every election, rent control is a battleground between candidates favoring the system's overhaul and those rallying for its preservation at any cost...
Other issues come and go, but the city's rent control system remains as controversial today as the day it was enacted. And in every election, rent control is a battleground between candidates favoring the system's overhaul and those rallying for its preservation at any cost...
...Forest Service defends the logging on the ground that the timber industry is vital to the Western economy. But conservationists counter that too much of the ancient forest is already gone and the destruction should stop. Thus the forests have become the hottest battleground in a broader war between the forces of economic development and the armies of conservation being waged from the wetlands of the East Coast to the oil-stained shores of Alaska's Prince William Sound...
While the courtroom was the main battleground in the Paramount-vs.-Time struggle, some unexpected lobbyists emerged to tout the Time-Warner combination. Director-producer Steven Spielberg, a close friend of Ross's, expressed his support in a telephone talk with the Warner chairman and Nicholas. Spielberg collaborator George Lucas, who distributes their Indiana Jones films through Paramount, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal last week that praised the Time-Warner deal for promising "steadily increasing values" and attacked Paramount for "contributing to the further destabilization of the entertainment industry and the U.S. economy...
...Soviets appear to appreciate that the world out there has changed. "We have stopped using the Third World as a battleground for capitalism or socialism," says Trofimenko. The new battlefields are more economic and scientific than ideological and military. To play on those fields, the U.S.S.R. has to negotiate arms limits, pull back from regional confrontation and permit political change among its satellites...