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...measured and effective response to the complaints of the low-rent landlords whether they are "small property owners" or "Class D" owners or are incapable by language, education or other reasons to effectively manage their rental properties. There is a crying need for an ongoing program to identify these "hardship" buildings and through an ombudsman position at the rent board to expedite appropriate adjustments. An ombudsman is authorized by the Rent Control Act, but has never been properly funded by the city council or the city manager...
...poultry on a small Rhode Island farm. In one of many psychobiographical pole vaults, Herrmann says, "As soon as he could afford it, he began buying only the most expensive custom-made English clothes. They were so beautifully tailored they gave the impression their wearer had never suffered poverty, hardship and the terrible smell of thousands of chickens dying." That Perelman's similarly attired literary colleagues were not all fleeing from the aroma of guano is irrelevant; once the feather complex has been formulated, all facts must bend...
Worse yet, they may not have remembered that two-thirds of the students here receive some form of financial aid, and coughing up the hundreds of dollars required to be socially acceptable at this "very special event" may impose some form of hardship. When it comes to formal wear, it is virtually impossible to look good at Filene's Bargain Basement prices...
Moreover, nobody really ever considered it a hardship to make the 100-yard trek from Cabot House to the Currier bus stop. After all, Quadlings' legs are strong from walking the mile-and-a-half sojourn to the River after missing the shuttle numerous times...
...projected 1986 oil revenues from $17 billion to less than $7 billion. That could prove devastating to a nation whose import budget this year is $10 billion. In recent months, stores in Tehran have been chronically short of such staples as butter, rice and lamb. Even economic hardship, however, can serve the regime's interests. Authorities promised one man who was desperate to obtain a TV set that he could have a place on the waiting list -- provided he attend three prayer sessions and three progovernment demonstrations...