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...tenants cited peeling paint, holes in ceilings and floors, heat problems, mice and poor upkeep in the building's common areas. In short, critics say a city agency agreed to raise rents for a building that is "abominable" and "a dump." And they say 266-270 Windsor St. is a perfect example of why the city's rent control system needs structural reforms...
...resident Edwina Kenney, who did not sign anaffidavit of compliance, said the building'scondition is far from satisfactory. Kenney saidher rent was recently raised from $615 to $642 amonth, but that she will not pay the differencebecause the building "looks like a dump...
...also the business ties Rockefeller had established in his long tenure as Faubus' investment counselor. Besides, the Federal Government was turning away from the Great Society. Clinton hoped for help from his fellow Southerner in the White House, Jimmy Carter, but that plan backfired when Carter used Arkansas to dump Cuban refugees at Fort Chaffee, where they rioted, broke loose and alienated the locals...
...Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...
...seem to swaddle just about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch...