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...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...
...however, some of the gut-seekers have found the course's problem sets unexpectedly difficult, and complain that lectures don't cover all the problem set material, thus requiring outside reading or a strong physics background...
...just -which is what they should do," says Hans Zeisel, professor emeritus of law and sociology at the University of Chicago and co-author of The American Jury (1966). Adds Robert Hanley, a senior partner in the Chicago firm of Jenner & Block: "Jurors are great at picking out the gut issue and deciding on that. They can tell whether a chairman of the board is lying or not, and that's what it comes down...
...million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots. "I don't care whether you are a newspaper or a ballplayer," says Rose, "if you give 100%, if you bust your gut every day, you're gonna come out ahead." For the Bulletin, though, it is going to be one tough game...
...opportunity to remind Americans just what government austerity means. In no time, the T.V. news will be crowded with old people who eat dog food. Reagan and David Stockman may back off, and if they do, so much the better. But if they don't, then the Democrats should gut it out, fighting Reagan at every turn, and though they may lose in the end, they will be beginning to repair their constituency...