Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housing convention in St. Mary's Hall, sponsored by the Cambridge Econocim Opportunity Committee, nearly 800 persons showed up to pass scores of resolutions aimed at keeping down their rent...
Students living off-campus were criticized for driving older residents out of the City because students living in communal apartments--with four or five of them contributing to the rent--can afford to pay more than a single family requiring the same space...
...member of Nader's task force supported himself in part by serving as part-time superintendent of an apartment building. Two others wangled rent-free rooms as caretakers. William Howard Taft IV, a great-grandson of President Taft, who is in his second year at Harvard Law School, lived on his savings. Edward Cox, 21, took a few days off to visit a girl friend while her father was winning the Republican nomination for President. Cox had met Tricia Nixon, now 22, in Manhattan at a Chapin School dance, and they have been going out together "more or less...
Although few of them are yet aware of it, Californians who own or rent property have something in common to grumble about. Until recently, state law provided that liability for injuries suffered by persons on their property varied according to the victim's status. Most protected by the law were people like milkmen, repairmen and insurance agents, who were called to do business. Last in line to collect for injury were social guests and trespassers, both of whom had to take the premises as they found them, regardless of dangers. All the owner or tenant owed them, it went...
...furor over soaring rents involves only one-third of New York's 2,100,000 privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been...