Word: facet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facet of rent control's administration which both reports miss is the fact that it is biased against the small landlord. The large landlord who owns a number of properties has the money and know-how to get the most out of rent control; the live-in owner of one or two buildings may not. Furthermore, present rent rates in Cambridge are based on 1967 rates which tend to be higher in buildings owned by large landlords, both because they were more attuned to what the going rates were, and because owner-occupiers often rent at reduced rates to friends...
That the "baby lift" is another facet of our emotionalism with respect to South Viet Nam is undeniable. But that it is being used by the Administration to manipulate emotions in favor of the President and against the Congress is highly questionable...
Malcolm was now calling for revolution instead of condemning it as impossible. He realized that the domestic black struggle was only one facet of the world revolution against imperialism. Through his fledgling Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) Malcolm was hammering home to American blacks the message that they were part of a world-wide struggle, a struggle in which they were in the majority as peoples of color. The attempts of the white media to smear him as a "hate-monger" who taught "racism in reverse" (as if an oppressed nationality acting in self-defense is capable of institutionalizing...
Actually, professional camera crews had been filming nearly every facet of the dinner for use in Jackson's unusual, slickly contrived announcement last week of his candidacy for the presidency. The five-minute documentary, created for Jackson by Producer David Wolper at a total cost of $30,000 (including air time on the CBS network), opened with the candidate rising from his table at the Century Plaza to the applause of the guests and beginning his speech to them. The scene set an affective cinema verite tone for the filmed highlights of Jackson's career that followed...
...capture and conviction of the extortionists and announced that it had no intention of paying the $1 million ransom. There was good reason. Said BPA Administrator Don Hodel: "The real hostage in any attempt to cut off energy supplies is society itself. When you kidnap energy, you endanger every facet of human life. That's why we can't let it be shown for all the would-be criminals and mental cases to see that J. Hawker can succeed...