Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neither the State nor any subdivision or agency thereof shall deny, limit or abridge, directly or indirectly the right of any person, who is willing or desirous to sell, lease or rent any part or all of his real property, to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses...
...billion appropriation measure, House-Senate conferees knocked out the $13 million needed to launch a National Teachers Corps -which Administration opponents had tried unsuccessfully to eliminate from the original higher-education bill. Also dropped in the Senate for this year was the Administration's controversial rent-subsidy scheme, whose funds had been denied by the House the week before...
...efforts designed to keep the cars in full view of potential buyers. The firms compete hotly with each other for almost any promotion-from having their models used on TV shows to supplying cars for celebrities-but the fiercest infighting is to win a favored position with the big rent-a-car agencies. Here, some major changes are occurring. Chrysler has already won the lion's share of the Avis rental business from Ford, and Hertz by year's end will complete a switch that will make Ford rather than Chevrolet the predominant car in its fleet...
...their products. "It's one helluva demonstrator," says Fred C. Zimmerman Jr., general marketing manager for Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division. "There is no salesman riding along, and nobody bothers the guy. The car practically sells itself." The auto companies help pay the costs of any rent-a-car ad that plugs their cars by name; one reason Hertz is switching to Ford is that Chevrolet declined to pay more of mutual advertising costs, while Ford offered to pay a generous half. Rental cars are usually bought through local dealers, but Chrysler supplies them on a leasing basis...
Though the Democratic leadership tried gamely to defend Weaver's gaffe, Harvey's motion to cancel rent funds passed by 185 votes to 162. Twenty-five House members who had backed the bill last summer now voted to kill...