Word: landlordism
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Over the course of last year, Sichuan province, Deng's home, emerged as a national model for China and Zhao, 61, as a model bureaucrat. Zhao had been denounced during the Cultural Revolution as a "stinking landlord element" (his father had been a landowner in Henan province) and was paraded down the streets of Canton in 1967 with a dunce cap on his head, a type of experience he shared with a number of other Chinese leaders. He disappeared for four years; then, in 1975, after serving in both Inner Mongolia and Guangdong province party posts, he was sent...
...fifteen minutes," he will add. It will always take at least 15 minutes, but Pinnochio's is worth the wait. The pacesetter in the Square, Pinnochio's serves consistently well-cooked pizza, and offers generous portions at reasonable prices. There used to be two Pinnochio's, but Harvard, landlord at one of the locations, decided it had other plans for the building. It is still vacant, a gastronomic loss of despairing proportions...
...commission, which will include business, labor, tenant and landlord representatives, has a year to formulate recommendations for the city council...
...also wants a room in TV's animal house, and executives there have been watching Ethel Is an Elephant. She is indeed, and she shares a loft with a young Manhattan photographer, who has to fight both the city and his landlord to keep her there. Once he-or the show's writer-finds out about New York's new antilitter pooper-scooper law, he may not fight so hard. But perhaps he is thinking of asking the garbagemen at ABC and NBC to come and help...
...suggest that landlords who heat their building be granted increases equivalent to 80 per cent cost-of-living increase," Edward Karian, a Harvard St. landlord, told the hearing. Karian cited a long list of conservation devices he had installed but added that even with lower energy use, his building had become "a liability, not a source of income...