Word: controled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would become possible to diagnose mental illness from a simple blood, urine or spinal fluid sample. Once imbalances in body chemistry are determined, doctors would be able to adjust them by administering the appropriate drugs. Harvard's Dr. Seymour Kety insists that such tactics are far from mind control: "You can't manipulate an individual's behavior in the way the popular mind would like to think." But Northwestern's Routtenberg is not so sure. Says he: "These techniques are extremely powerful. Some day we're going to have to have a mind SALT talk...
Most Boston players did not admire the performance. It brought into focus their criticism of Chinese musicianship: the inability to sustain rhythm and tempo over a long stretch. "You must maintain control if the excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem...
Opponents of rent control in Cambridge told state legislators last week that rent control was preventing landlords from making a fair profit...
...rent control opponents, led by the Cambridge Property Owners and Taxpayers Association, testified in favor of two house resolutions before the state legislature's Joint Committee on Local Affairs. The first resolution would phase out rent control while the second would institute vacancy de-control, which would end rent control as tenants leave apartments...
Leaders of several city tenant organizations and five of Cambridge's nine city councilors told the committee that they favored retaining rent control. "Rent control is one of a number of strategies we have to keep Cambridge a liveable city. Without rent control, the attractiveness of Cambridge to developers would very soon leave it a city of nothing but high-rises," City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser told the panel...