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...Finance Authority is specifically exempted from control. But arguments presented by tenant groups from subsidized housing in the city, and especially their tales of $250 monthly rents for "low-cost" one-bedroom apartments, convinced the council to include FHA and MHFA housing in their plan. Most observers and lobbyists predict that this part of the Cambridge petition will get the most resistance from the legislature...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: With the state's law dying in committee, weaker local controls may well be on the way | 3/24/1976 | See Source »

...time are able to recoup, regroup and alter strategy. Yet almost every decision in the Bayh campaign was dictated by money constraints and made so late that they were binding for the duration. There was no flexibility, and not even Boston's political Vince Lombardi, Mr. Walsh, can predict the future with perfection. It was lack of time, not bad decisions, that...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Let Bygones Be Bygones | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...politics of the grad school, which will be composed of 40 per cent social and natural science courses and 20 per cent medical services, pose no such problems. And he doesn't seem too worried about preserving free speech within the class room. "No prudent person would attempt to predict how individuals will behave in a decade from now when the university will be operating in full capacity." It would be the height of folly to say how things will be in Iran, as it would have been to foresee what it would be like starting a school in India...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: No Place To Go | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

...like the idea of a hormonal cycle that enables me to predict when I'm going to feel down. Think of the advantage to a President: summit meetings could be scheduled only on the up days. Down days could be reserved for the CIA cleanup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...which perhaps proves that it is a risky business to attempt to predict the behavior of the NLRB. One can only look forward to the Board's decision with interest, keeping in mind the words of Leet: "It is the job of the National Board to make sure that a coherent overall policy is followed, and that case precedent is followed to the extent that the Board sees fit." If the Board sees fit to ignore precedent in this case, the enemies of a Med area union may in fact have found an unwitting ally in the halls...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Parrying the Final Blow | 3/6/1976 | See Source »

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