Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Henry singled Duehay for criticism, calling the 13-term incumbent "a guy who protected white rent-controlled tenants for 20 years...
...give poor people vouchers instead, you might have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first instituted by Presidents Nixon and Ford and strongly supported by Reagan...
...took nearly two years for the hit rock musical Rent to get from workshop to Broadway, but its sassy, sexy downtown look will be available retail this week--a scant nine days after its Broadway opening night--when Bloomingdale's opens a Rent boutique in Manhattan...
...Rent look, at least as Bloomingdale's sees it, is shiny, colorful, abbreviated and frequently made of materials that hadn't been invented this time last year. Rent the musical is tough and loud, and it deals with AIDS and drugs. It is also a radical updating of Puccini's La Boheme, and the costumes, designed by Angela Wendt, take their cue partly from that. Roger (Rodolfo in the opera) wears plaid pants made from a material similar to a popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young...
...past four years to track down the 1,609 American military personnel still missing in the country have been diverted into the pockets of various Vietnamese officials, middlemen and hucksters. Among the alleged abuses: entire fleets of U.S.-owned vehicles, designated to drive investigators around, have been rented out to tourists by agents of the Vietnamese government (daily rental fee: $40); village-excavation laborers, slated to receive $30 a day, have often been paid less than $2 a day; and the U.S. has paid the equivalent of $10,000 daily to rent Vietnamese helicopters, whether or not the choppers...