Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since people are not wont to let go of rent-controlled apartments once they get them, those who need to move frequently--that is, the working poor--are doubly screwed...
...landlords who can't raise their rents have a strong incentive to let their apartments deteriorate in order to bolster profit margins and encourage their rent-controlled tenants to move...
Glass designer Karen R. Hastings, the daughter of North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, sang in the North House Opera while in high school. She says that being a master's child let her benefit from Harvard life, even though she was never a student here. "I was exposed to a broader world at a younger age," she says. "A lot of interesting people were always coming to talk...
...believes, is bad coaching. "I've watched coaches say, 'Shut up and do it the way I tell you because I'm the coach.' I've watched coaches abuse people, hit people and even kick people. There are not enough coaches out there saying, 'Hey, it's O.K. Here, let me show you how to do it. Just hang in there.' Human caring is very much needed...
...were not sure what was happening, but I felt something had to be done" was the way Gerald Ford explained his recapture of the cargo ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand in 1975. "Let's do it" was Reagan's simple command that sent F-14 pilots aloft on a risky mission in the Mediterranean that apprehended and forced down the Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...