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Rent control was the number one order of business for the City of Cambridge during the past week...
...soon rebounded, but recession-cut German prices never caught up with those in other countries. For industrial products, Germany's principal exports, many prices not only failed to rise but actually fell. Retail prices of electric ranges, washing machines, refrigerators, watches and TV sets declined slightly in the past year. The 2½% increase in the consumer price index over the twelve months through last April was due almost entirely to an 8% increase in rents and a 2% boost in food prices...
...demand has burst on a field that was totally unprepared for it. The number of beds in U.S. nursing homes has almost doubled in the past eight years to 750,000 but less than half are in homes that meet such Medicare standards as fireproofing and staff nursing services. The current additions of 90,000 beds a year can take care of only one-third of the rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal...
...Shaffer, a former vice president of TRW, Inc., who is the new FAA administrator, says that the quotas are merely a "Band-Aid approach" that does not solve the real problems. Inadequate airports and traffic-control systems have been overwhelmed by the 101% increase in air traffic within the past decade. A program to automate air-traffic control more fully is two years behind schedule...
Bloody Cruelty. History lives in his verse because he has understood in his poetic bones that all history is contemporary history; what is dead in the past is just that, but the living past works in our minds. Thus Andrew Jackson "despite appearances, stands for the gunnery that widened suffrage...