Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some, like Vellucci, see themselves as progressives but do not want to ally themselves to a slate. Others are more conservative--they oppose placing limits on development and favor rent control revisions...
Meanwhile, Councillor William H. Walsh is an independent of a different sort. A real estate lawyer who is the council's most vocal critic of rent control. Walsh has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for business transactions with several city officials. And while he is not being accused of illegal activity. liberal groups like the CCA have been quick to question the propriety of his business dealings...
Walsh's opponents charge that his aggressive style is simply headling-grabbing that evades substantive issues like rent control and overdevelopment...
...there was a majority in the making, it wasn't apparent at the Board's last meeting in June. There, HRAAA's supporters couldn't muster enough support to block passage of the Young Report, a controversial set of proposals to give the University more control over future overseer elections...
...November virus infected 6000 computers around the nation and hit systems at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Air Force Logistics Command, among others. Friends have said that Morris meant the virus to be a harmless prank but that it spiraled beyond his control...