Word: landlordism
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...support King's agenda for improving lower and middle-class housing by protecting tenants from rent hikes and eviction and by seeking to reclaim landlord-abandoned housing. We support his continued efforts to use state end city funds to develop jobs and businesses on the community level. We support his efforts to stop race and sex related crimes through education and community programs rather than through "Kick ass" police enforcement. And we especially support King's confidence that the Hub can transcend racial hatred and violence...
...have had to close more than 300 of the 1,475 offices they operated two years ago. Those who are able to make their way to a legal aid office are often turned away. The attorneys are too overworked to handle many of the divorce and child-custody cases, landlord-tenant disputes and other routine problems that are the bulk of their work...
...responsibility system" in Sichuan has demonstrated that peasants work best when they tend their own fields. For Westerners this recognition seems equivalent to the rediscovery of the wheel. But with a crucial difference. The state, via the commune, has replaced the old landlord. It owns the fields; the peasant rents an allotted share of land; if he meets the state's quota (once called the landlord's rent), he keeps the rest. This is progress. It is harsh; yet the Great Cultural Revolution was far more cruel...
...more elliptically they seem to be telegraphed. In Chef's House, Edna is persuaded to rejoin her husband Wes. He tells her he has stopped drinking and is living in a rented house with a view of the ocean. Together, they happily pass a summer. But then the landlord says his daughter needs the house, and Wes and Edna will have to leave. Edna realizes that this news will send Wes back to booze and her away from him: "Wes got up and pulled the drapes and the ocean was gone just like that. I went in to start...
...Exotic Nile," the narrator is hoodwinked by his landlord into taking his wife's younger sister out to dinner because "She's young, but she's not that young, and she likes you." "[Did] You get him?" the girl asks her brother on reappearing and they all pile into her convertible, where she proceeds to climb all over the narrator...