Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces another threat this fall in Proposition 1-2-3. This referendum, penned by Cambridge realtor Frederick N. Meyer, would allow tenants who have lived in rent-controlled apartments to buy them. The argument Meyer uses is that the loss of a rent-controlled apartment is offset by the gain of a new homeowner. The proposal's advocates paint the issue as one of "choice...
...having some level ofcontrol that both the victims and the communitylacked. The late 17th century witch-hunt at Salem,Massachusetts, provides an example of thishalf-real, half-illusary struggle for controlbetween the "witches" and the community. The verybelief in witchcraft itself became a tool withwhich the victims attempted to gain personalcontrol and the society attempted to maintainsocial order and control of its environment...
...show an official Penn housing pass, a driver's licence and be escorted by a card-carrying Penn student. The dormitory entrance resembled nothing so much as Checkpoint Charlie. It's enough to make you appreciate a campus where a cry of "Hold the door, please!" is sufficient to gain entry to a residence...
...everywhere nature is being tamed -- but victory over nature is a kind of suicide. The rules change when there is only one political party allowed in a country or there is only one company selling oil or shoes. So too when a species becomes numerous and powerful enough to gain the illusion of mastery. What we have now is a sort of biological equivalent to a black hole, wherein a star becomes so massive and dense that it bends space and time totally around itself and then pays the ultimate price of domination by disappearing...
...deal as well. For one thing, entertainment is the second largest U.S. export industry (aerospace is first). Moreover, Pat Choate, an economist and author of a forthcoming book on Japanese involvement in U.S. politics, sees Sony as a company that zealously lobbies for its own interests and stands to gain substantial influence over U.S. public opinion. Just as overseas firms are barred from owning U.S. television stations because of the potential for spreading propaganda, Choate notes, limits should perhaps be placed on foreign ownership of Hollywood studios...