Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge City Council agreed last night to support Harvard's plan to sell about a quarter of its formerly rent-controlled property to the city and convert much of the remainder to affiliate housing...
...prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly-scheduled erotic dramas; Showtime was first with Red Shoe Diaries. Knock-offs like the network's own lower-rent Love Street have been popping up ever since, and while they vary significantly in terms of production values, most do quite well in the ratings. Showtime's Diaries is one of the network's highest-rated programs; the same is true for the French-produced series Emmanuelle on Cinemax...
...very happy because the signs were ominous--a tremendous conservative tide in this country, the loss of rent control, the low voter turn-out," said CCA affiliate and Agassiz Tenants Union Co-chair Randy Fenstermacher shortly after the election. "We are very pleased that we stood our ground...
...that rent control has been abolished, the progressive and moderate factions on the city council have found common ground on most issues...
...allowed students to reach out to larger communities. The activism has moved beyond purely student-centered issues to unions, most notably the Harvard Dining Services Union and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, and the larger city community, with the recent controversy over the demise of rent control and expansion of the University's real estate...