Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which makes it clear to its supporters--as the rent control referendum does not--that rent control is subordinate to the long term goal of pushing the City government to increase the low-income housing in the City will have a chance of alleviating the housing crisis. Rent control per se should not be played up; it should be played down. The referendum should not sell panaceas, but rather a coherent strategy, to Cambridge's residents...
...Permit rents to be raised 8 per cent per year at the most and then only if the unit meets the health and housing codes. There are three reasons a landlord can give to raise his rent: major capital improvements, a project of less than 6 per cent per year, or an increase in operating expenses or property taxes...
...proposed reforms would tax capital gains income at the same rate as ordinary income, end the seven per cent investment tax credit, and abolish all depletion allowances. In addition, the petition calls for an end to loopholes in estate tax laws and for the taxation of state and municipal bonds...
...lurid scenes from the '66 Berkeley riots were still in the voters' minds, and Reagan made tidy political gains by emitting harsh formulas for stopping the student rioters. Reagan seemed to have overestimated the California conservatism, however; a poll taken two days after his election showed that some 65 per cent of California adults--the middle class, conservative, socially-concerned adults who had elected Reagan--were afraid that their new governor might go too far in restricting the colleges...
...half years later, however, the people are no longer so scared. After what has seemed to many Californians to be a constant succession of campus explosions, more and more voters are itching for Reaganesque reprisals against the students. And when a poll was taken late last month, some 75 per cent of those same California voters said they thought the time had come for the governor to get really tough with the students who were wrecking the schools...