Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states "that a municipality accepting this act may exempt those rental units for which the rent charge exceeds limits specified by said municipality provided that no more than twenty-five per cent of the total rental units be exempted under this section." Apparently this means that the administrator may fix higher rents for up to 25 per cent of Cambridge housing if he so desires...
While dramatic series have become drearier, commercials have developed into the sprightliest little plays on television. These days, many a viewer is tempted to leave his set during the first half of The Brady Bunch, fix a sandwich, pour a beer and then hurry back to watch these entertaining dramas in miniature. Actress Alice Playten, for example, has become nationally famous as the bride in the Alka-Seltzer ad who lies in bed breathlessly reliving the triumph of her first home-cooked meal-particularly a single, monumental dumpling. Behind her back, the uncomfortable husband surreptitiously gulps a fizzy glassful...
...toilet. The image of Charlie Chaplin, in Modern Times, leaving a plant and turning and twisting an invisible wrench all the way home is less funny than ever. "Do you know what I do?" asks a striker outside G.M.'s assembly plant at Tarrytown, N.Y. "I fix seven bolts. Seven bolts! Day in and day out, the same seven bolts. What do I think about? Raquel Welch...
Most of the liberals later turned against Johnson for his Viet Nam policies, and they have not let up on Nixon. They were outraged at the invasion of Cambodia, led moves to fix a firm withdrawal date for U.S. troops in Indochina, opposed the anti-ballistic missile system (which survived in the 1969 Senate by only one vote), rejected Nixon Supreme Court Nominees Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell...
Goodell fought Nixon on Cambodia, demanded that he fix a deadline for Viet Nam troop withdrawal, voted against Haynsworth and Carswell. When Nixon Aide Murray Chotiner urged New York Republicans to support a candidate who could best work with the Administration, Goodell?and everyone else ?knew he did not mean Goodell. Months ago, Nixon reportedly told a Republican Senator: "I hope Ted leaves Charlie alone. He [Goodell] is a disaster, but he's our disaster. I told him to cool it." But no one believes that Agnew or Chotiner would act without at least a wink from the President...