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Rent control is a prime bread and butter issue in Cambridge. The city's landlords are in a bind: The University and white-collar research and development firms are bringing in a lot of middle-and upper-middle-income families. If rent control were removed, these newcomers could bid up the price of housing and force out the lower-income groups. It is this kind of change in Cambridge's neighborhoods that Councilor Graham is fighting with all the supporters she can turn out at protest meetings...
...unravel, Magruder joined one of the intimate "covenant" groups that Evans had started in order to feed the "spiritual hunger" in Washington. Jeb's wife Gail joined another (also attended by Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette). The groups are small-typically only a dozen people who bind themselves to each other through eight principles or covenants. The principles include a broad sharing of time, ideas and possessions when another member needs them. His group is continuing Bible studies with Jeb by mail and visits while he is in prison...
...bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate...
Rattle of Chains. Argued Republican Cohen: "When the Chief Executive of the country starts to investigate private citizens who criticize his policies or authorizes his subordinates to do such things, then I think the rattle of the chains that would bind up our constitutional freedoms can be heard and it is against this rattle that we should awake...
...critical problem during the shutdowns was that no one knew who started them or who was running them. There was no union involved, no one committee presenting a set of demands. Caught in a bind by rising fuel prices, owner/operators got restless last year; in December a brief but massive shutdown followed, with highway blockades and assorted acts of violence. The truckers said they were asking not just for fuel price rollbacks, but higher and more profitable weight, length and speed limits...