Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Since its inception in 1970, rent control has held center stage in Cambridge politics...
This election year, however, the debate has a different spin. With three of rent control's strongest backers retiring from the City Council, the future of the system could be in jeopardy...
...question of what might have stopped Hitler early on is the question of whether he might have emerged victorious. First, by not going to war at all. If, instead of invading Poland, he had limited himself to threats and bullying, he might have achieved his main demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor. It is possible, of course, that the whole dynamic of Nazism required war, but if Hitler had been able to stop short of that, he would probably have been widely regarded as the man who undid the defeat of 1918, rebuilt...
...suppose Hitler, who often expressed admiration for the English, had not tried to conquer Britain? What if he had simply kept offering some kind of peace terms that would have preserved the independence of Britain and its empire while leaving Germany in control of Europe? It is hard to see how Britain could have gone on waging war indefinitely without any allies. And though Churchill had vowed to fight on the beaches, there were always others who might have been more "reasonable." One such figure was the self-exiled Duke of Windsor, who had taken refuge in Spain after...