Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts House gave initial approval yesterday to legislation to extend local option rent control until...
...Cambridge, a number of tenants' groups--most notably the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee--have repeatedly organized demonstrations in favor of the local option law as well as against attempts by Independent members of the Cambridge City Council to repeal Cambridge's rent control statute...
...thrust of the 1,308 pages of the transcript is that the President was trying to save his own skin and would consider almost any option, however bizarre, if it would help him do that...
Most damaging for the President was the defection of some of his key supporters who influence votes. House Minority Leader John Rhodes warned Nixon that if his position continued to deteriorate, he might have to "consider resignation as a possible option." Rhodes spent a full afternoon on the House floor listening to one Republican after another as they all offered variants of "I've had it." Rhodes gave them no argument. Representative John Anderson of Illinois, the third-ranking Republican in the House, took a similar position. Claiming that the President had "damaged himself irreparably" by releasing the transcripts...
...Since general wage-price controls have expired, Dunlop cannot order a rollback; to get the Ford increase canceled or reduced he would have to go to court, and it is doubtful that the White House would permit the Justice Department to take the case. Since he has no other option, Dunlop's only hope of containing the auto-price rise appears to lie in bargaining with GM, the price leader. GM Chairman Richard Gerstenberg stated at week's end that his company's production costs have risen $200 per car and that GM has asked the COLC...