Word: landlordism
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...Harvard Real Estate-run building, we are not optimistic that the removal of Hunneman and Company, Inc., as managers of many of Harvard's real estate properties will result in better services for tenants or greater responsiveness to tenant concerns. In our experience Hunneman's record as a landlord was a rather sorry one of neglect and mismanagement. At the same time, however, our dealings with Harvard Real Estate have shown them to be arrogant and at least as unresponsive and mismanaged as Hunneman...
Since the fall of 1978 we have been strenuously engaged in trying to improve conditions in the building, which had seriously deteriorated in the decade since Harvard purchased the property. Our efforts have been met with firm resistance on the part of the landlord: they responded to our report that the building was in serious disrepair by petitioning the Cambridge Rent Board to increase our rents by 35 to 90%. Only after the Cambridge Health Department cited over 130 health code violations in our apartments and the building did Hunneman and Harvard Real Estate begin to make repairs--with...
...championship. They are also probably the six best-read Foreign Service officers." Some of the six spent the time at Taylor's residence, others at the home of Roger Lucy, 31, the embassy's first secretary. A few also stayed temporarily in a safe house -until the landlord decided to show it to prospective buyers...
...involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased for $75,000 and rented for half that figure for the 13-day duration of the Games...
...been TIME'S Man of the Year for 1951 because he had "oiled the wheels of chaos." In 1963 Iran had been swept by riots stirred up by the powerful Islamic clergy against the Shah's White Revolution. Among other things, this well-meant reform abolished the feudal landlord-peasant system. Two consequences: the reform broke up properties administered by the Shi'ite clergy and reduced their income, some of which consisted of donations from large landholders. The White Revolution also gave the vote to women. The Shah suppressed those disturbances without outside help, in part by jailing...