Word: rent
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...Rent control. Jobs. Development. City services. Crime. Schools...
...best way to achieve affordable housing is an issue in itself, as citizens take sides in the longstanding and bitter debate over rent control. Both the pro-rent control Cambridge Tenants Union and the anti-rent control Small Property Owners' Association have endorsed candidates and will be active participants in the campaign...
Candidates know this is a hot button issue and are playing it for all it's worth. "This rent control system needs to be eliminated," says candidate Anthony D. Galluccio...
Thus began the game of chicken that has now reached its anxious finale. Congress set a deadline of next month for the deals to be worked out but, crucially, didn't prescribe any form of compensation. While the broadcasters wanted cash, the cable companies, like squatters told to pay rent after years of living for free, refused, insisting on barter deals. The networks' negotiating threat has been that if the cable companies didn't pay, and couldn't show Saturday Night Live or 60 Minutes anymore, their customers would rebel. The cables' negotiating threat has been that if they stopped...
This last element -- the not unreasonable requirement that at least somebody in a thriller be interesting enough to spend an evening with -- is utterly absent from another much whooped crime novel about to reach the bookstores. It doesn't matter that the story comes from Rent-a-Plot in first novelist Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. The idea has worked before and will again: a couple of ordinary guys in northern Ohio stumble over a small plane crashed in the woods. The pilot is dead. The cargo is $3.5 million in used U.S. currency. Should they...