Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, who has been pressing for immigration reform, is expected to sign the bill. Then comes the hard part, enforcing the new law. "Nobody can say it's going to work," confessed Panetta. "But one thing is clear. The present situation is intolerable...
...exactly, indeed. Byrne's band started out in the punk new-wave era but outlasted and outclassed it. His lyric for their 1979 song Life During Wartime has a spooky pertinence that sounds like sci-fi for a perpetual present tense...
Tenants suffer from this presumption of fairness when outrageously high levels of profit approaching 90 percent of the gross rent in 1967 are carried forward to the present. This legalized rent-gouging is a continuing testimonial to the unbridled greed of a few landlords in the "fair" rental markets of 1967. While the tenants paying these rents suffer most, all tenants and the rent control policy suffer as responsible landlords observe a few greedy neighbors receiving huge profits without basis in any rational analysis of the rent. The appearence of "unfairness" most easily leads to pressure to raise all rents...
...those properties where there is reason to believe that greater than 60 percent of the gross rent is net income or profit. A change in rent board policy toward adjusting rents on a building by building basis rather than groups or classes of building would address many of the present inequities including the "hardship" cases. This change in policy would require a reappraisal of the "presumption of fairness" in 1967 rents. After moving to an "expenses plus fair income" accounting, a few properties would require sharp adjustments to be within guidlines...
Such adjustments would seem to be a small price for greater rationalization of the policy and a better response to the perceived and actual inequities of the present situation. Such adjustment would take a year or two to fully implement, but seem fully realizable with a computer-based system...