Word: givens
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...Rent Control restrictions under the foregoing Sections) shall be allocated by the City for (a) rent subsidies for tenants in existing rental housing, and (b) the production of new rental housing. The benefits allocated under this Section shall be distributed to applicants based upon demonstrated financial need, with preference given to long-time-resident, elderly or homeless citizens of the city of Cambridge, of low or moderate income...
...department, and the company motto, also in English, is pure yuppie: "We make sure you're a winner." Says Isao Iwase, managing director of Oshman's in Tokyo: "The comfortable American life-style is being more widely accepted these days." With fall in the air, American baseball gear has given way to N.F.L. hats and jackets...
...achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder I try to see through it, the more impenetrable it becomes." Given this impasse, The Storyteller seems closer to fact than fiction: a fascinating tale left incomplete through circumscribed realities...
...Germany one way or another, and some think it will not stop until it has redrawn the boundaries of the country. The tide of events is washing away leaders and eroding the ideology of a rigidly orthodox state. Swept away too are many of the old certainties that have given shape and substance to the division of Europe settled at Yalta. Among them is the central and long- standing assumption, in Moscow as well as in the West, that two Germanys are a long-term if not permanent feature of Europe's political landscape...
...which has a large gay community, Harvey Milk has some things in common with a frontier school. It has two full-time teachers, Beth Bomze and Fred Goldhaber, and two classrooms for 40 students, only a handful of whom show up at the three-story waterfront building on a given...