Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes to show how many latent hippies there are in Atlanta. They have to make great sacrifices to be what they are. They sleep wall to wall in unclean falling apart houses, all of which are in this one small area of 14th St. because no one else will rent to them. When we first pulled up in front of the Bird's offices, immediately, before we were out of the car, the nearest hippie rushed up to sell us acid-speed-or-hash. It's the first time that's happened since when I was in Casablanca last summer...
...task. Land reform has a long and unfortunate history in South Viet Nam. For years, U.S. and other foreign advisers impressed on a succession of Saigon rulers the need to end the inequitable system by which peasants are forced to turn over 25% to 50% of their harvests as rent to absentee landlords. If that advice had been heeded earlier, former U.S. Ambassador to India Chester Bowles recently mused, "it is unlikely that American troops would now be involved in that tragic country, fighting against peasant guerrillas." Bowles knows that the tragedy of Viet Nam cannot be explained quite...
...women, merely appearing neatly dressed for breakfast was enough to start their tokens; patients who had spent all day in a rocking chair were paid to get up and observe a job being done, then paid a little more for helping to accomplish it, and then obliged to pay rent for the chair. Withdrawn patients were paid for speaking to others...
...City Council has had before it in recent weeks a rent control ordinance proposed by the Cambridge Housing Convention. I am certain that the City Council will weigh and evaluate the proposal before it in the light of the present housing crisis and the need to control the unreasonable and excessive rises in rents...
...codes. At this point in time, we are only able to enforce our housing code--which applies to buildings after they are built--with respect to conditions which seriously endanger health and safety. To enforce it more strictly would reduce the available housing stock, particularly in the critical low rent brackets. We don't want any of our citizens living in unsafe or unhealthy housing, but to force a family out of housing units because there are no screens, or because lighting is inadequate seems absurd in the context of our present crisis...