Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ties binding the Convention candidates together is their common position on general housing policy--rent control, the halting of condominium conversion and of vacancy decontrol. The reformers believe the continuation of rent control will help to preserve the distinct ethnic and social neighborhoods in Cambridge and to protect moderate and lower income residents from rent inflation caused by the desire of more affluent people--some of them Harvard-affiliated--to rent or buy property in Cambridge...
...field a large number of candidates without fatally diluting their strength by grouping under the Cambridge Convention banner and capitalizing on their cross-over vote strength. Since every ballot will eventually count for some candidate, left-leaning voters can vote for someone with little chance of winning, and still protect their interests...
Crane supports vacancy rent decontrol. He says the purpose of rent control is to protect "low and middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
There the anthropologist ordered several revisions, and O'Bradovich made a new model. The shopping list he gave our Nairobi bureau included a pair of brown glass eyes, a dead rabbit and false eyelashes; and he also requested a personal guard to protect his equipment and handiwork from whatever hazards might lurk in the bush. In three 18-hour days, O'Bradovich fashioned a plaster head modeled from skull fragments, then used the head to mold a latex mask of a Homo habilis face. A Kenyan volunteer wore the mask for Fischer's cover photograph, taken...
...accept the similarity between Begin and the PLO covenant? The latter's constitution expressly states the destruction of the State of Israel as its first and foremost aim. In his most nationalistic speeches Begin has never expressed the determination to exterminate the Palestinian population. He demands borders which would protect his tiny country from the sea of Arabs surrounding it. The similarity escapes...