Word: landlordism
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...many other Western Governors are frustrated because so much of their territory is owned by an absentee landlord: the Federal Government. The 29% of Washington that belongs to the U.S. is comparatively small: the Government owns 47% of Wyoming, 52% of Oregon, 64% of Idaho?indeed about 57% of all the land west of the Rockies. Bureaucrats decide how minerals and coal will be mined on federal land, how timber and grazing rights will be apportioned, how electricity will be generated and sold, which areas will be set aside for public recreation. Says Ray: "I often feel that the long...
...aged characters are the butts of a major share of the jokes. The only sexual state funnier than menopause is homosexuality: "fruit" jokes fly fast on Soap, where there is a transsexual character, and on Three's Company, where the hero pretends to be gay so that the landlord will allow him to cohabit with two single women. When these two shows are followed by a Family episode about a lesbian teacher-as they recently were-one begins to feel that homosexuality is the hottest issue to sweep the country since Reconstruction...
While Moore and most of the other fighters in Shadow Box are black, no one will mistake Plimpton for a Great White Hope. Rather he calls to mind the role Beau Bridges played in the early '70s film The Landlord: a rich, soft, and well-intentioned white boy mixing it up with blacks from the ghetto--emerging unscathed by some miracle, but not unchanged...
Ralph Hoagland, the landlord for the Restaurant at the Orson Welles, said yesterday he had foreclosed on George Garfinkel, the proprietor of the restaurant, when Garfinkel failed to pay the rent...
...rent control, Dreier thinks the city needs a new "formula" to aid the small landlord who is being driven out of business or forced to neglect the upkeep of his property...