Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schmidt want to start spending their Monday nights at city council, they should begin soon--the crucial vote may be on how the institutional expansion guidelines are to be drawn, and that could take place late next fall, not much time to mend some fences that have fallen into disrepair. "For years everyone on the city council has been abusing Harvard verbally--it will be interesting to see how much was show, and how many will vote to really stick it to them," one city councilor, who asked not to be identified, said. "Even if they do start politicking...
...have been strenuously engaged in trying to improve conditions in the building, which had seriously deteriorated in the decade since Harvard purchased the property. Our efforts have been met with firm resistance on the part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with the implict threat that they would...