Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican minority last week mounted an impressive effort to defeat the proposed transfer of the Commerce Department's Community Relations Service to the Justice Department, fell short by a 42 to 32 vote that displayed unaccustomed G.O.P. solidarity. After barely failing to eliminate $12 million in rent-subsidy appropriations the week before, the Republican House leadership abandoned attempts at selective pruning, instead touted an across-the-board cut of 5% on all domestic appropriations. Unable to trim bills totaling $8.4 billion to finance several executive departments, House Republicans restrained their frugal impulses long enough to join unanimously in adding...
...thinks, lies not in closing off overused parklands but in educating the public to their proper use. With a shoestring budget of $800 and the dedicated efforts of 25 full-time volunteers, her organization has put together slide shows with accompanying texts that contrast spoiled and unspoiled nature. They rent for $2, plus postage and insurance, to a growing audience of garden clubs, schools, Boy Scout groups, Audubon societies and climbing clubs. GOMA also sends out a monthly newsletter plumping for proper woodsmanship, makes members pledge to spread the word personally wherever they go. Highlight of the year, however, comes...
...issue of "guns v. butter," or as they now call it, "rifles v. ruffles." Since much of the money was earmarked for pensions and pay raises for Government employees and servicemen, the Republicans aimed instead at what they considered to be two Great Society ruffles: a $12 million rent-subsidy program for the poor and a $10 million Teachers Corps project for impoverished neighborhoods. During a seven-hour, bitterly partisan debate, the Republicans tried to strike out the rent-subsidy funds. But the Democratic leadership had done its work well. The attempt failed narrowly, 198 to 190, with six Republicans...
Fortunately, food remains cheap and 1913-vintage rent control keeps the cost of city housing down to a mere $4 to $8 per month. Even so, Austrian workers earn an average of only $1,500 a year, and the Austrian standard of living lags so far behind that of its Western neighbors that some analysts fear a massive emigration of skilled manpower...
...Rent Imprimatur. The Interstate Commerce Commission, well aware of the perennial boxcar shortages, has long fought the low-rental rules laid down by the Association of American Railroads' imprimatur. Indeed, a bill giving the ICC greater rate-setting leeway last year passed the Senate, now is stalled in the House. Still undaunted, the ICC ordered that all railroads receiving boxcars from the Great Northern or the Northern Pacific promptly unload them and return them to their corporate owners within 24 hours. If the receiving rail lines ignore this order, the ICC will probably have to go into the courts...