Word: limited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most rent control opponents react to conversion by calling for either a prohibition of evictions by landlords who want to convert apartments of by going further and placing a limit on conversions. City Councilor David Clem says the rent control board approved only four requests for eviction by converting landlords between January and September of 1977. Conversion opponents claim, however, that landlords are frightening many more tenants who do not know their legal rights or are just too afraid to exercise them...
...Phase out the limit on how much Social Security recipients can earn without sacrificing any of their benefits. At present, if a "retired" person under the age of 72 makes more than $3,000, he loses $1 in Social Security benefits for every $2 he earns above that amount. The House voted to raise that ceiling to $4,000 in 1978, $4,500 in 1979, $5,000 in 1980, $5,500 in 1981. In 1982 it will be abolished. Democrat Al Ullman of Oregon argued against the phaseout. Allowing high-income people like doctors and lawyers to collect both their...
...final problem that the MX presents to arms control efforts is one of verification. Hidden underground in unmarked tunnels, MX missiles could not be easily identified or counted by Soviet satellites. Underlying any serious attempt to limit strategic capabilities must be the ability to have independent verification of missile levels. The U.S. should exercise considerable caution when confronting not only the possibility of escalating the arms race, but of foreclosing any future attempts at negotiated reductions...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), former professor of Government, said last week the present failure of efforts to limit terrorism results from a misconception of the problem...
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