Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concerned that once rent control ends in December rent rates will skyrocket, 350 people, including Mayor Sheila Doyle Russell, Vice Mayor Kathleen L. Born and city councillors Henrietta S. Davis, Michael A. Sullivan and Kenneth E. Reeves '72, signed the petition...
...regularly. They were CIA case officers, and until they fled on Aug. 31, just as the Iraqi army was rolling into the Kurdish city, this was their base in Erbil. When they departed--driving fast, well before dawn-- they left three things behind. The first was the rent, four months' worth paid in advance. Second was hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of computers, scramblers and satellite phones, as well as equipment used by a TV-radio station that beamed anti-Saddam propaganda into Iraq 11 hours each day. Finally, they also left behind 1,500 members of the Iraqi...
...underway in the same house. Two academics, Hannah Jarvis (Kandis Chappell) and Bernard Nightingale (Terence Caza), are busy combing through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they also flirt with the waspish residents of the house, Valentine and Chloe Coverly (Willis Sparks and Annika Peterson). Oh, and a mute kid wanders about the premises. Sadly, he is mostly on stage...
...nine students renting the apartments in the upper two floors of the house are working to renovate it. The rent they pay to Pi Eta Speakers Associates is identical to the housing cost term billed to Harvard undergraduates who live in campus housing...
They plan to eventually use the spacious first floor for Sigma Chi meetings and social events. When the chapter begins utilizing the entire house, it will pay rent to Pi Eta Speakers Associates...