Word: controlling
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Proposition 2--in some form--is one such refinement that merits additional investigation. Now, families who rent out their houses while they go abroad have a hard time reclaiming them when they return--because the rent is controlled. Proposition 2 solves the problem by exempting private home rentals from rent control altogether, but a more equitable arrangement could allow greater flexibility for families who wish to reclaim their homes...
...rent control is the best solution that Cambridge has found to the changing economic times. And to a large extent, rent control has proven effective. Cambridge has kept its diversity. Cambridge is not just another suburb of Boston...
Proposition 1-2-3 reinforces the worst of rent control with only vague promises of a better system. It should be rejected on Tuesday, November...
...status, but William Hopkins, a leading narcotics expert working for the state of New York, estimates that 70% of New York City's drug users are affluent. Across the U.S., drug counselors report rising numbers of professionals -- doctors, nurses, accountants, professors -- trying to kick crack habits gone out of control. "We've got Wall Street executives who buy crack in the middle of the day and smoke it in the office," says Alan Horowitz, program director at A.C.I., a treatment center in New York City. "We had one air- traffic controller at J.F.K. airport who was smoking crack...
Energy and transportation policies control what comes out of a nation's smokestacks and exhaust pipes. Yet there has been little coordination among the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Transportation...