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Clearly, rent control has worked in Cambridge. With a generally balanced policy, it has protected the naturally adversarial interests of landlords and tenants. Fifteen years of regulation have maintained rents at approximately two-and-a-half times those of 1967, an increase which is slightly less than the increase in the consumer price index. This increase can recover normal operating costs and maintain a fair profit in most cases...
...Fifteen years of rent control have only accentuated the unfairness for these few landlords. They suffer because for a variety of reasons the rents were unrealistically low in 1967, and the normal General Adjustment cannot ensure rents which will recover current operating costs and provide a fair net income. The Individual Rent Adjustment process provides an avenue of redress for these cases. It requires landlords to substantiate in detail their increased expenses...
Only the sprint stands between the boat and thefinish line. Fifteen to 20 furious strokes. Thereis no thinking, here. Only pulling...
...Fifteen people, including three Americans, died in the attack. Another 127 were injured by the four gunmen, who disguised themselves as Karachi Airport security workers and stormed the plane. Two of the attackers, all of whom were believed to be Palestinians, were killed...
Since last week's revelation that Wyeth has been painting a series of 200-plus portraits on the quiet for the past fifteen years, my estimation of him has dropped considerably. It's not that I mind him having done the series in the first place, but if he wasn't planning to tell anyone while he was painting them, why let the secret out now? With Wyeth walking around with a too-pleased-with-himself-for-words smile on his face and his wife, Betsy, talking about the paintings in terms of love and lovers, the entire episode smacks...