Word: massachusetts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps with the consent of Massachusett's junior senator, John Kerry--added an 11th hour ban against the Federal Communication Commission's spending money on cross ownership hearings to an 800-page omnibus spending package passed just before Congress adjorned for the holidays. As a result, a fiesty Boston daily willing to sail against Massachusett's prevailing political tide almost certainly will lose its spark. And a mediocre New York paper, the Post, may close down, which would leave New York with one fewer paper that might one day improve--and 1300 people without jobs...
Eviction-related housing problems occur when landlords retaliate against tenants by terminating their leases, particularly when tenants complain to the state about unsatisfactory health or living conditions, said Emily Dreyfus, an advocate of there bill who belongs to the Massachusett's Tenants Organization...
...Massachusett's Association of Realators opposes the legislation because the group said the establishment of statewide regulations are not necessary when local communities can exert control over the cases on a municipal level...
NEWS:Jonathan M. Moses '88 of Winthrop House and Hackensack, New Jersey, Managing Editor. Shari Rudavsky '88 of Lowell House and New York, New York, Managing Editor. Jonathan F. Putnam '88 of Quincy House and Lexington, Massachusetts, Senior Editor. James D. Solomon '87-'88 of Quincy House and New York, New York, Special Projects Editor. James Editor Schwartz '88 of Dunster House and Newton, Massachusett Associate Editor. Geoffrey H. Simon '88 of Lowell House and Short Hills, New Jersey, Sports Editor. Mark T. Brazaitis '89 North House and Washington, D.C., Assistant Sports Editor. Andrea E. Monfried '88 of Eliot House...
...long ago, an outraged and brutalized public insisted that criminals serve longer sentences for the crimes they commit. But soon, as one might expect, prisons simply ran out of space. In Concord Prison, one of Massachusett's medium security correctional facilities, six-by-ten-foot cells that were designed to hold one inmate now have two sleeping in bunk beds. Rooms that were meant to be recreational areas or infirmaries now house 20 to 30 prisoners. Each week, the number grows...