Word: passed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Los Angeles, and beaches are badly polluted. The government is moving to relieve some of these ills, but has had little success coping with high prices, which are caused partly by the consensus system. In Japan, no manufacturer sells directly to a retailer. Tradition decrees that every product pass down a long line of wholesalers, mostly very small, each of whom takes a cut that adds to the price...
...within 20 days, the council does not pass, without amendments, the rent control ordinance proposed by the initiative petition, the ordinance is then automatically put to the others, who can either pass it into law, or defeat...
...seems unlikely that the council will pass the ordinance at that time, since they have twice refused a request from the Cambridge Housing Convention to pass a similar rent control bill...
...days in the familial apartment, free from worries about rent increases. No matter that a rent control bill, any rent control bill, can't provide complete protection against rent raises, that it won't stop, the Inner Belt, or that it may even be impossible for Cambridge to pass a rent control ordinance without a specific enabling act from the state legislature--rent control seemed to offer the answer, a direct and personal assurance of safety in a time of peril...
...were passing out leaflets in front of the Boston plant and talking to the picketing strikers and prospective customers in front of the first-floor store. They were arrested about 12:30 p.m. and charged with "blocking free foot pass age" on the Berkeley St. sidewalk...