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...ironic that precisely the blue-collar middle-class districts of Cambridge comprise the core of the rent control opposition! These long-time Cambridge residents consider rent control a boon to the rich. They find that the policy raises everyone's local taxes, while a third of the units go to tenants who make more than the national median income, and nine percent go to tenants earning over $55,000 per year...
...even though Iran has continually proven itself a liability for Reagan, the Middle East nation can easy become a symbolic boon for the ailing president, enabling him to reestablish himself as an itchy-fingered Dirty Harry...
Movius said he believes "any publishing effort that increases access to scholarly writing is not only a boon to the field but to the individuals working in the field...
Just as the huge demand for deluxe homes is a godsend to builders, it is a boon to the suppliers of quality home furnishings. U.S. sales of finished marble increased by 32% last year, to nearly $1 billion. Old World Moulding & Finishing, a Farmingdale, N.Y., manufacturer of some 500 different kinds of moldings, reports that its 1986 sales topped $1 million, an increase of nearly 90% in one year. Marvin Windows, a Warroad, Minn., firm that makes custom-made windows and patio doors for the expensive-home market, has had record sales every year since 1982. The company has been...
Dorothy Herrmann's recent biography, S.J. Perelman: A Life, points out what any sensible reader already knows: humorists are not a sunny breed. They pick up their tribulations by the wrong end, and that provokes mirth. But after the audience leaves, the anguish remains. Perelman's boon companion and brother- in-law, Novelist Nathanael West (Miss Lonelyhearts), died young (36) in a car crash. Perelman never fully recovered from the blow, nor did his wife Laura, who descended into alcoholism. Many of his best letters deal obliquely with the disappointments he felt with his family and his work...