Word: owner
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Cambridge rent control law mandates that any one-, two-, or three-family house is exempt from rent control if it is owner-occupied. Should any property become inhabited by its owner, it is automatically decontrolled. This exemption is not new; it has been part of the ordinance since it was instituted 15 years ago. Once an owner lives in the property, he may do whatever he chooses with the house--rent below market rates, at market rates...
...When the LaserWriter came out, I thought it would be nice as an Apple Macintosh owner to have access to a laserprinter. Then I thought other owners might be thinking the same thing," said Randall S. Hancock '87, who founded the business along with Charles L. Proudfit '87 and Michele C. Wojcieszak...
...establishing unequal access to the means of production, Harvard has fostered the emergence of a class society in a sphere traditionally characterized by classlessness. As a result, our undergraduate community is becoming increasingly fractured into two great camps directly facing each other: computer-owner and computer-deprived...
...likes an antisocial computer. If a machine cannot communicate with other devices, its owner can be isolated and less effective. Yet the IBM Personal Computer, which has become a desktop standard since its debut in 1981, still cannot be linked in large groups. Result: a virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored...
...Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"). Frederick seems to have stepped out of Turgenev, a charming, superfluous man of no apparent conviction who winds up happily married to the owner of an Italian resort hotel. Mimi, sweet and depressive, is stood up for a date as a teen, and she is well past her prime before she settles for the aging manager of the Dorn factory. Betty the bohemian demonstrates a lively spirit by running off to Paris...