Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment can only qualify for removal from the rent-control rolls if the owner occupies it, if the tenant lived there before the cutoff date of August 10, 1979, or if it is in such bad condition that only new construction can make it habitable...
This Sullivan argues that rent control imposes hard and often absurd burdens on small landlords, and he supports a system of "vacancy decontrol," which would allow an owner to stop renting a controlled apartment after the tenant left. Supporters of the current system, however, say David J.'s proposal would both reduce the housing stock and encourage landlords to use devious means of getting tenants to move...
...Boraxo to get their hands clean after a hard day's work. Often they work at physically demanding jobs, and they only appreciate sports that are physically demanding, like arm wrestling. They are big-bellied, long-haul truck drivers in dark blue Levi's and cowboy boots; gym owners in muscle T shirts; car mechanics in soiled khaki uniforms; skinny blond boys who work as bag boys at Publix; and occasionally they are pretty, olive-skinned women, like Teresa Taglione, with dangling gold earrings, blow-dried hair and lots of eyeliner. Teresa, 24, is a world champion in the women...
Tony Cafazza, 46, owner of a St. Louis company that sells and services cash registers, rang up profits even as the crash began. Cafazza had sold his stock holdings during the previous three months, for a profit of $100,000. Then, in September, he bought so-called puts on General Motors -- options to sell the company's stock at a fixed price in the future. On the Friday before Black Monday, as GM stock nose-dived 4 7/8 points to close at 66, Cafazza cashed in his options, which soared in value because their set purchase price was higher than...
...West German amateur pilot who landed the rented Cessna just outside Moscow's Red Square last May, stayed behind in Lefortovo Prison awaiting assignment to a Soviet labor camp to serve his four- year sentence. The plane was flown to West Germany and transferred to its new owner, Munich Businessman Wolfgang Rudy Neumann, 51, who bought the craft from a Hamburg aviation club...