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...control. Under the existing Massachusetts law, housing that is built or subsidized by the Federal Housing Authority of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Authority is specifically exempted from control. But arguments presented by tenant groups from subsidized housing in the city, and especially their tales of $250 monthly rents for "low-cost" one-bedroom apartments, convinced the council to include FHA and MHFA housing in their plan. Most observers and lobbyists predict that this part of the Cambridge petition will get the most resistance from the legislature...
...half-filled and must take off on schedule. The disadvantage of O.T.C.s is that the traveler must book well in advance; 15 days for North America, Mexico and the Caribbean; 30 days for all other destinations. Moreover, he forfeits his payment if he cancels after a certain period (though low-cost insurance is available to cover the loss if he drops out). Worse, if the packager cannot sign up enough customers he may cancel the flight 15 or 30 days in advance; if so, the passenger's payment must be refunded...
...Stress agricultural development. Not only must the countryside help feed the nation, it must also provide savings to fuel future growth and be able to consume the goods produced by its developing industries. The poor countries should provide the small landholders with low-cost credit and technical help; the farmers must also be allowed to charge enough for their crops to give them the material rewards for increased output. Labor-intensive manufacturing, using simple machinery-perhaps even the spinning wheel advocated by India's Mohandas Gandhi-should be located in rural areas to use productively the vast armies...
...case, Mitsui did buy, at $5 a share, 100,000 shares of Siam Kraft Paper Co., a Thailand concern that Kearns founded. At the time (1972), Proxmire estimates, the stock was worth no more than $1.75. While Kearns was head of the Ex-Im Bank, which makes low-cost loans to foreign firms so that they can buy American exports, the bank approved 37 separate loans to Mit-sui's parent company in Japan, by Proxmire's count...
Reaction from Princeton students and faculty to the project has been slight. "There hasn't been any," said Thomas Pyle, chairman of Princeton's undergraduate assembly. Some student pressure last spring led the university to make a commitment for low-cost housing in the project, an editor of the Daily Princetonian reported...