Word: rent
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Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh drew the ire of other councillors by using a legal technicality to prevent the council from discussing the issues on its agenda yesterday, as he continues to push his rent control campaign a week before the election...
Walsh said he would continue doing the same every week until the city council modifies its rent control policy to help property owners affected...
Last week, Walsh proposed a series of changesto existing rent control policy which woulddecontrol some units and allow property owners whopay a certain fine to live in their "ordinance"condominiums--a type of condominium which ownerscannot legally occupy...
...Others rent hotel rooms on their parents' credit cards, and sleep six or more to a room. Invariably someone stumbles into the room, pukes on one bed, and falls asleep in the other. Fifteen minutes later, he empties his stomach on that...
...every word and every gesture of every white man on earth." He apparently had reason. As the daughter grew older, she heard family tales about an incident that occurred when she was only two, and too young to remember. Her parents had fallen short of their $4-a-month rent, and the furious landlord had tried to torch the house, with the family inside. That someone would intentionally destroy his own property or burn people alive for a pittance seems implausible. The young girl believed it, and her writing would later be etched with the incommensurability between what hatred intends...