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...implementation of rent control has admirably fulfilled the intent of past majorities of the city council to protect all tenants from a difficult choice between wholesale displacement through eviction and/or inability to pay versus a drastically decreased living standard precipitated by the unconscionable rent-gouging permitted by a "free-market" as presently seen in Cambridge. A majority of the city council intends to preserve the diversity of Cambridge through a housing policy, including rent control, which makes it possible for all income groups--the poor, low, moderate, middle, upper-middle and wealthy--to live in Cambridge...
...tenants paying these rents suffer most, all tenants and the rent control policy suffer as responsible landlords observe a few greedy neighbors receiving huge profits without basis in any rational analysis of the rent. The appearence of "unfairness" most easily leads to pressure to raise all rents towards the "free-market" level. The existing huge range for actual rents and in the ratios of expenses to profit greatly contribute to the perception of unfairness and inequality. This is a fundamental structural problem...
...showing made Demirel a serious rival for Prime Minister Turgut Ozal, whose free-market Motherland Party won six seats and 32% of the popular vote; both figures were disappointingly below Ozal's expectations. Demirel may now push for general elections prior to the ballot scheduled...
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich. The umbrella under which the Center for Constructive Alternatives and the Shavano Institute for National Leadership operate. C.C.A. sponsors four seminars a year on various conservative topics. Shavano focuses on free-market economics and "traditional values." Although small, Shavano is influential. In May 1985 in Washington it sponsored a high- profile conference on "Moral Equivalence" at which Jeane Kirkpatrick gave the keynote talk...
...Best and the Brightest of Kennedy's day fought World War II to save the possibilities of freedom, helped rebuild war-ravaged Europe as a bulwark of the West and launched the world's free-market economies on the greatest surge of growth ever. Even if the tragedy of Viet Nam is entered on the debit side, this record of achievement remains a challenge for their children to match...