Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitchell ruled that because the board let MIT present evidence that the project would increase the city's housing stock, it must also let members of the anti-development Simplex Steering Committee testify that University Park would push rents up, congest traffic and disrupt its neighbors in other ways...
...There will be no appeal at all," he said. "We'll go back to the rent board; we will present the same things. I would expect them to act with reasonable consistency...
Members of the Simplex Steering Committee and the Cambridge Tenants' Union who appealed the board's April decision said the judge's ruling gave them a chance to present a case for the harmful effects of the development on future rent-controlled housing in the area...
These flaws were present in his earlier four-hour-plus documentaries on the Nazis, The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) and The Memory of Justice (1976). But The Sorrow and the Pity was, like a great realistic novel, dependent for its force on the patient, even repetitive, accretion of detail. By now, length and weight have become an end in itself for Ophuls, a way of enforcing the audience's commitment to his work. Anything that demands this much of us cannot be casually dismissed. Too much, though, is streaked with irrelevancies: digressions and dubious stock footage; interviews with people...
...noblesse oblige," says Uwe Reinhardt, professor of political economy at Princeton University. Of the industrialized nations, only South Africa and the U.S have not made an effort to extend coverage to all their citizens. If compassion were not an argument for remedying that dreadful situation, economics might be. At present the costs of the uninsured are hidden and spread unevenly in the form of higher insurance premiums and general medical costs. Bad debts and uncompensated care totaled an estimated $8 billion last year...