Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting, which attracted close to 80 people, focused on building community solidarity, attracting media attention and creating statewide awareness of the growing number of evictions in Cambridge since the city abolished rent control...
...Since the end of rent control, we've helped many tenants to keep their homes. If they lose their homes, they're out of the city," said Bill Marcotte, the lead housing organizer for the EFZ. "We're all in the same boat, and we'd like to get out of this leaky boat together," he said...
Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge resident, spoke about the goals and platforms of the EFZ. Cavellini said that the last five years without rent control have shown that landlords are not afraid to raise rents--making staying in the city prohibitively expensive for low-and moderate-income families...
...Silicon Alley or California's Silicon Valley, have to scrimp on the office space, using converted industrial lofts crammed with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn rate--the monthly running expenses of an Internet company ticking toward ipo or implosion. For new-media employees, the workday is 16 hours, the workweek seven days. "Cyberspace is rife with sweatshops," says Andrew Ross, director of the American Studies program...
...nation has forgotten its core values and is tearing itself apart; the Healer wants your help (or at least your vote) to put together that which politics has rent asunder. By definition, the Healer eschews traditional political debate, instead probing the seams of religious and patriotic sentiment for a message that will deliver the electoral mother lode. Throw a stick in New Hampshire in February and you?ll hit at least five would-be Healers. Ross Perot is a failed Healer. As Bill Clinton proved, the true art of playing the Healer is convincing voters that you feel their pain...