Word: rent
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...grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it, decide to help out with a Little League that's getting started in darkest Cabrini-Green. Cabrini is a 70-acre failed social experiment known, in understated terms, as the worst low-rent development in the U.S. From its high-rises rifle fire sweeps down, both random and specific, as rival gangs contest territory and drug- marketing turf. In Cabrini, as Coyle relates, "gunfire is discussed like weather. Better go shopping early, because they're gonna shoot tonight. They sure were shooting last...
...After that she ducked out of sight, and was spotted only once late in the week arriving at her tiny cabin on a Christmas-tree farm in Beaver Creek, where she and Gillooly had been living since they were evicted from their apartment last fall for not paying the rent. For all the rumors, police disputed a Boston TV report that Harding's name was contained in a sealed warrant. But both were wanted for questioning, and they hired a pair of high-profile, out-of-town lawyers, both former U.S. Attorneys. After a meeting with the Portland district attorney...
...said that the students who proposed the club have requested that Harvard assist them in finding a place in Harvard Square to rent...
...think they need a regular place to meet," said Epps. He also commented that another social club, which is still in the formative stages, plans to rent a space in Harvard Square and may therefore have a better chance of success...
...Cambridge Rent Control Board ExecutiveDirector Terry P. Morris said he was confident inReeves' continued support of rent control. "Idon't believe that what happened with the electionpolitics will affect Ken Reeves' position in anyway," Morris said. "[Reeves] is above that...