Word: rent
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While Reeves had been a strong proponent ofrent-control in Cambridge during his last andCCA-supported, term as mayor, the Independentswith whom he is now affiliated have beenhistorically anti-rent control...
...large deficits of the Museum--a situation not dissimilar to the present crisis--and the matter was resolved finally through the intervention of an Advisory Committee and President Pusey's agreement to refurbish the Museum's basement from University funds making it fit for research collections, and to "rent" the upper floors of the Museum building to the Center for International Affairs for a period of five years. In fact, the CFIA remained twenty-five years...
...time was sensitive indeed. The I.R.A. and the British had just begun a secret exchange of messages aimed at opening peace talks to end the violence that has rent Northern Ireland for 25 years and left thousands dead. Despite outrage over these killings and others that followed, the contacts continued and the two sides edged toward full-scale negotiations. Then last week the Observer newspaper uncovered the secret talks...
...tradition: the hegemony of the Russian Orthodox Church. Yuri smiles as he recalls that under communism, his parents were denied permission to build a house because it might be used as a religious meeting place. Under the new democracy? The same: "My wife, who taught Sunday school, couldn't rent a place for classes. My relative is a pastor in Barabinsk in Siberia. The local mayor told him to get out of town. He said, 'We don't want any religious dissent...
...ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord would rent them a flat...