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...landowners pressed legislators last week to pass two bills that would effectively end rent control, one by phasing it out over the course of a year, the other by ending rent control on individual apartments as their tenants left--called vacancy rent decontrol. "With a 50 per cent annual turnover rate, that is ending rent control," City Councilor and State Rep. Saundra Graham said at the state hearing...
...Divestment Movement, with the support of the Student Senate, also sponsored a boycott of classes on Thursday and Friday, Jerry D. Kemp, a student and member of the Divestment Movement said yesterday. He added the strike was highly effective, forcing Brandeis to cancel 80 per cent of its classes...
Chavez said the union has asked for a 32 per cent wage increase because the real wages of the workers have increased only 13 cents per hour since 1970. The employers rejected this proposal, and on January 19, the workers went on strike...
...still shudders with every OPEC price increase. The January balance of payments report shows the country $3.1 billion in the red, and foreign oil has a lot to do with that unsettling gap. With the recent decision by OPEC member nations to raise prices 9.5 per cent, exclusive of surcharges by individual nations, the outlook is gloomy...
...magically go away. But assuming that nuclear plants will solve the problem is just as naive, and perhaps disastrously so. If a comprehensive government program to encourage installment of solar heating devices--along the lines of the home insulation tax rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand, according to government estimates. The benefits of such a program would seem to outweigh the costs...