Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rent Control Committee of the Cambridge City Council will consider tonight three changes in rent control administration, one of which would urge the Cambridge Rent Control Board to stop across-the-board rent increases in Cambridge expected later this year...
...Rent Control Board, appointed by City Manager James L. Sullivan to administer rent control in Cambridge, decided on a 4 to 7 per cent general increase to save the administrative headaches of too many landlords asking for individual adjustments...
Joan Lorentz, a tenant and member of the Mid-Cambridge Tenants Association, said yesterday she hopes the reforms will improve fundamental problems with the way the rent control committee functions...
...Under the present laws there probably are conditions under which a just rise in rent is possible," she said, adding, "The rent control board seems to be unable to exercise options...
...like the German magazine Stern, are having second thoughts about the blood traffic. Warns Dr. Shelley Brown of the Council of Hospital Blood Bank Directors in New York City: "For anything as vital as blood, it's unwise to become overly dependent on a supply that you cannot control...