Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walt was the fifth of ten children from his mother's several marriages. Only Walt and four others still lived with her, and she supported them on a $412 monthly welfare check. About two months ago, after the family was evicted from their apartment for not paying rent, they moved into a single dingy room in a friend's home. There was only one bed for all six of them...
Miller said after the rally that the University makes no money on its real estate around the Med School. The value of the land increases every year without a proportional increase in rent, he said, so Harvard is actually engaged in "de facto subsidization" of the housing...
They demanded the replacement of Harvard's present rental agency, Hunneman Realty, by another agent of the tenants' own choosing; a rent freeze at the level of last January 1; and immediate repair of all safety hazards...
...Pookie and Jerry all frightened in a car. See Jerry rent a shabby cabin. See them look at each other all afraid and embarrassed. See how silly he is taking off her clothes. Wake up, wake up, audience. This is what "the young people" are up to today...
...poor than for the middle class and wealthy, the two analysts maintain. They have rejiggered the figures in the Government's consumer price index, which is largely based on middle-class spending patterns, to construct a "poor price index"; it gives more weight to increases in food and rent expenses, less importance to rises in clothing, transportation, medical and education costs. Between 1965 and 1967, the last year for which they calculated the poor price index, it rose 5.1%, compared with a 5.8% increase in the CPI. The Wisconsin researchers conclude that "the poor are not hurt by inflation...