Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When married couples hit the inevitable doldrums, they may want to revisit their Hollywood-fueled expectations about what marriage is and what it will do for them. Then maybe they can chuck their positive illusions and rent a good movie--one where the hero and heroine don't necessarily live happily-ever-after all the time, but stay together anyway...
According to Winters, demographic shifts could also influence the election's outcome, since the end of rent control has changed the profile of the typical Cambridge voter...
...Cambridge is still feeling the aftershocks of the decision to lift rent control, creating essentially a hemorrhaging of lower-income, usually minority, residents leaving the city in search of affordable rents...
...claims cannot be used to defeat civil rights laws. Civil rights advocates are concerned about such groups as the World Church of the Creator, for example, which claims a religious belief in promoting the white race. Gay lawyers say the bill would allow conservative Christian landlords to refuse to rent to gay people even in states with laws protecting lesbians and gays from housing discrimination...
...announcement that Quantum would become the first large-budget film to go straight to the Net raises some crucial questions. Will people still go to theaters, or even rent videos from stores? What will happen to the big studios and distributors, especially given the success of The Blair Witch Proj-ect, which formed its core audience on the Net before catapulting its way--through theatrical release--to a box-office bonanza? Will the Net open new markets for independents...