Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the law guarantees landlords a "fair net operating income," any owner earning no more than an amount defined as "fair" will probably be allowed to raise rents as the costs of operating his apartments increase. For instance, he would be allowed to raise rents for increases in property taxes, which in many cities have risen as much as 20 per cent a year recently. The rent control office might even allow landlords to raise their profits each year, passing this cost on to tenants...
...like this," said the owner of a supermarket chain over his grapefruit in one of those flaked, weary Florida hotels. "We can't run our business any longer. There's got to be stability. It takes two years to plan and build a new store." Gasoline, highways, housing starts, employment and the price of wheat have all got to be calculated. That future is now chaos...
Sniper Shots. Though many independents stayed home or picketed peacefully, the week leading up to the settlement exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove...
...press box, chatting with the general manager or the farm-system director." Miller was a college fullback (Notre Dame) until he was sidelined by an injury; his father, Ray T. Miller, was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Browns. "I've always wanted to be an owner like my father," he says. Tippit was a boyhood baseball freak who wanted to keep Cleveland a major-league city. With the authority of a $250,000 in vestment, he helps run the town's base ball team, the Indians...
...disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish bites. One Midwestern fisherman has trained a dog to rally round the flag and bark whenever it goes up, thus allowing its owner to concentrate on his poker game...