Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs, youthful rebelliousness, pollution of air and water and the myriad other maladies of a post-industrial society that is growing ever more bewilderingly urbanized, ungovernable and impersonal...
...center (sample from Taipei: "Keep out of the buses or you may lose your wallet. Do not purchase the company of a girl for more than 24 hours at a time; they seldom look as good in the morning."). The R & R center will also arrange to rent him civilian clothes (several countries are nervous about having U.S. personnel in uniform). And then come his five carefree days, single-mindedly devoted to the pursuit of pleasure...
...mixed community. On an eight-acre tract in the Waldon Square area of Northwest Cambridge the City Stables housing project will be built--250 low rise garden apartments (for families with children) and a cluster of high rise apartments. About 25 per cent of the apartments will be rented under the Public Housing Leasing Program, under which the city pays the difference between what a low income family can afford and the rent for the housing. These arrangements will be kept confidential and families with rent subsidies will be scattered around the project. So they will not carry the stigma...
...been able to hire a first rate firm, Architects' Collaborative, to draw up the project's design. The Corporation is also pushing to get City Hall to declare City Stables the site of an Urban Renewal Project. If the site can't be purchased under the Urban Renewal program, rent for the housing will have to jump $15 per month...
Coates said "it seemed that potential voters had no notification of the type of proof" needed to establish voting residence in Cambridge. He said that the commission had questioned one man's evidence of rent receipts and a bursar's card...