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...Osaka, the police and public are cooperating in the same strategy of calculated humiliation. Local activists have picketed known gang headquarters. Landlords have tried to evict mobster tenants. For their part, the police have been summoning gang leaders to appear at the police station for tongue-lashings in an effort to shame them into giving up crime. "We are trying to change the waters the gangsters swim in," said a police officer. Perhaps the most devastating weapon the communities wield against the yakuza is social ostracism. Parents tell their children not to play with those of the gangsters; shop owners...
...control has protected Cambridge residents from the skyrocketing rents that an accelerating influx of students and young professionals would otherwise have created. But now the conversion of housing units into condominiums provides landlords with a means of by-passing rent control, allowing them to reap hefty profits while they evict occupants and reduce the amount of housing available to low- and middle-income tenants...
Rippling Comedy. In the early stages of the novel, Scott plays the antics of his couple and their anomalous place in Indian society for laughs. The only threat to their continued self-imposed exile also seems comic. Mrs. Bhoolabhoy, the fat and temperamental hotel owner, is trying to evict the Smalleys so that she can raze the old building. With the timid and ineffectual...
...determined strengthening of Zionist control and the extension of Jewish landownership. The Israelis retained British Mandatory Emergency Regulations, the repressive laws of wartime, to deal with the Arab population--despite the Zionists' adamant opposition to those regulations imposed before statehood. These measures, however, made it possible to evict Arab farmers from their fields, to place unreasonable curfews on villages, to banish certain individuals, to place others under house arrest, and to jail still others without trial and often without any apparent reason...
...submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect; if they cannot rise out of the yard, they must learn to live without abandoning hope entirely...