Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance Proposition 1-2-3 does not seem to be an anti-rent control referendum. Its first part allows tenants who have lived in rent-controlled apartments for two years to buy them. The second part exempts owner-occupied units from rent control should the owner move out temporarily. And the third part suggests that extra tax revenue garnered from the sale of rent controlled units should be used to increase the supply of affordable housing...
...second flaw with this proposal is that it is entirely unenforceable. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue ruled this summer that the Cambridge City Council would have to grant approval for an affordable housing fund each year as part of the normal funding process. New times and new politicians could easily mean no new affordable housing...
...atmosphere, the earth will heat up. The U.S. has spent several trillion dollars over the past 40 years buying insurance against a Soviet nuclear attack. Global warming, by contrast, is not just a risk but a certainty. It would be a shame if quibbling and ambivalence on the part of some Bush aides were to play into the hands of those who are looking for an excuse to do nothing...
...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...
...addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part motivated by a desire to drive a stake through America's SDI missile-defense program...