Word: decontrolling
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...selfish manipulation of the housing market. In last November's municipal elections, 50 percent of Cambridge's voters told Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) to stop selling rent-controlled buildings to professors on a priority basis. Because of owner-occupancy rules, Harvard's house sales only serve to decontrol apartments reserved for low-income tenants...
...April 15 Crimson editorial concerning the current federal gun decontrol bill contained inaccuracies of both tone and content which I feel painted a distorted picture of the legislative history here. You missed a chance to provide some education amid your declamation...
Rodino has been fighting the decontrol bill all along, and pushing his own bill to tighten restrictions. For Rodino, as for most law enforcement officials, the crucial issue is restricting handguns--as opposed to rifles and shotguns--as well as ending the insanity known as machine gun rental, available since...
...were probably right to be a bit hard on Congress. It has held its ground, in this case, against handgun decontrol, but hasn't had the guts to do what's needed: clamp down on all future transfers of handguns whatsoever, just like the machine guns. As I wrote in the December Perspective, we are a big country and we should choose our toys more carefully...
...just what is the NRA up to when it attaches a duplicate of an already existing law to a handgun decontrol bill? It seems transparent that the provision in question is there so that our centerfold, Robert Kliesment, can go on about how the NRA is making our streets safe for good honest citizens by locking criminals behind bars. Without this bogus provision, the NRA ad would have been impossible...