Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of pro-tenant Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, the City Council last night defeated a home rule petition designed to aid enforcement of the city's rent control ordinance...
...special council session called by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, the council voted 4-3 not to send the petition to the state legislature. If passed by the both the council and the legislature, the measure would reinstate a 1981 law struck down last month by the Supreme Judicial Court...
...measure will likely come up for reconsideration at next Monday's regular meeting, according to Councillor David E. Sullivan, the petition's sponsor. Although Vellucci abstained from last night's vote, he generally supports the rent control system. If joined by Vellucci and Duehay, Sullivan and the measure's supporters would have the five votes needed to send the petition to the State House...
...History is a non-entity at high school," Professor of History Simon M. Schama said in an interview last month. "It is not surprising that students are unprepared, seeing that the textbooks are so appalling...
...Harmon said that if CAR had supported thecurrent housing system, Jewett and the housemasters would have eventually moved toward fullrandomization. He said that after Jewett releasedstatistics showing a lack of diversity in thehouses last month, it became clear that the housemasters would not support the current system...