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...best way to achieve this goal, he said, was to hear what all involved parties had to say. From the time he began working on the project in November, Ford said he talked to city councillors, the mayor, tenants, property owners and officials from other rent control programs...
...good part of what I had to do was get rid of the opposition and tension so that it would no longer be viewed as a 'tenants versus landlords' system," Ford said...
Late last month, the City Council's Rent Control Subcommittee published a 38-page, 18-point proposal to address the numerous maladies which currently plague Cambridge's system. The subcommittee called upon third-year Harvard Law School student Richard Ford to orchestrate the package dealing with the city's "hottest issue...
...Three automakers plan to lay off 29,000 workers this week as they close all or parts of 16 assembly plants. Blessedly, traffic through dealer showrooms has begun to show signs of revival in recent weeks. "It's up 30% to 40%," beams Mark Hutchins, general sales manager for Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division. "We're ready for things to turn around, and we think they're turning." An unexpected bonanza: Kuwait may need to replace 100,000 cars and trucks...
George Bush, as is his habit at times of crisis, escaped the White House on Thursday for a bit of what he calls "prudent recreating" -- an evening at Ford's Theater to see Black Eagles, a play about black airmen in World War II. Says one of his top advisers: "I think it helped clear his mind" for what he knew would be one of the most fateful decisions of his presidency...