Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home-rule petition in the state legislature, adopted a strict rent control ordinance in 1971. Median household rents skyrocketed by 70 per cent during the '60s, and the ever accelerating stream of students and young professionals moving into Cambridge indicated there was little chance of future relief. The city's rules exempted only owner-occupied dwellings with less than four rental units, federal- and state-subsidized housing, and all housing built after 1968. What further galls rent control opponents is that the city's rent control board--which grants rent increases and rule exemptions--is a fair but tough interpreter...
Spence Taylor and Herb Larsen provide comic relief to comic relief in the Shakespearean characters of Henry, an aging, vain, forgettable actor and his companion Mortimer, whose specialty is spectacularly acrobatic feigned death. They are hilarious in their early scenes, and successfully make the transformation to guileful roughnecks in the second...
...President, the defeat may have come as a relief in disguise. His economic advisers had predicted that the bill -which would require that by 1982 at least 9.5% of the nation's imported oil be transported in U.S.-flag ships-would fuel inflation. Main reasons: since U.S. shipping lines pay higher wages and observe higher safety standards than foreign competitors, they cost up to 50% more to operate. Domestic tankers now carry only 4% of U.S. oil imports. If their share of the market were increased to 9.5%, it would mean more business for the U.S. shippers and more...
Since Erica Jong overcame her fear of flying, and Philip Roth professed desire, it is a great relief to find a novelist who isn't hiding, naked ego poorly concealed, behind her central character. The Ice Age is not about any one person, but rather a constellation of characters in an historical content, the downfall of their country. Each character, we feel, has his own identity, his own rationale for living, and a small but important fate to be played out against the background of a faltering England. Drabble has the novelistic strength to make the most of her role...
...actress who retired in order to care for her brain-damaged daughter, but also to avoid competition with her less successful actor-husband. While doing fund raising for a cerebral-palsy fund, Alison learned how to read balance sheets and ask knowledgeable questions about interest rates, investments, and tax relief. Now she shares a common interest with Anthony Keating: money...