Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Governor John A. Volpe had signed a law last May allowing a tenant to sit on the Housing Authority. Before that, no resident of a public housing project had served on the 34-year-old group...
...established between a state that was not free and a church not yet reconciled to the values of freedom." Many of the concordat's provisions run counter to the intent of Italy's postwar constitution, which states that "all religious confessions are equally free before the law." But the constitution also clearly ratifies the three Lateran pacts, which provide that "the Catholic, apostolic Roman religion is the sole religion of the state...
...landlords have lately raised the roof on rents in part to make up for lost time and money. Six years ago, in a scramble to beat a zoning-law deadline, they built an excess of apartments and filled them by offering rents that were fairly reasonable by Manhattan standards, as well as three-or four-month rental "concessions." Now there is a desperate housing shortage. While the rental vacancy rate for the nation is 5.4%, it is 1.2% for New York City. The landlords, hardly a charitable lot, can get together fairly easily and exploit the shortage because 250 real...
...taken up with an intricately choreographed, totally absurd mating dance set in motion around his fusty deathbed, as various relatives pursue each other in preposterous shifting triangles like the occupants of a French bedroom farce. They even fight a mock duel. Most kinetic is a cheerful, kindly son-in-law named Danby in whose house Bruno is dying. Danby begins by sharing his bed with Adelaide the maid, then flirts with his brother-in-law's wife and finally consorts with an ex-nun named Lisa. She and a forbearing homosexual nurse called Nigel are the enigmatic characters, familiar...
...noted that the issue of money was particularly important since a Massachusetts state law gives control of the school budget to the school committee...