Word: rental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founder and chairman of Jartran Inc., the U.S.'s newest truck rental company, constantly complains about "those damn Ryder people." That is hardly surprising because Ryder System Inc. is the nation's largest truck-leasing firm. But the grumbling executive is none other than James A. Ryder, 67, who founded Ryder in 1934 with a $35 down payment on a $200 secondhand Model A Ford truck...
...attorney for local real estate developers attacked the ordinance, which requires developers wishing to convert rental apartments to obtain a permit from Cambridge's Rent Control Board, on three basic grounds...
...lawyers contended in a long series of briefs and memoranda that the University had increased the city's rental housing stock over the last decade by purchasing properties that would otherwise have been converted to condominiums, and by donating land and money for the construction of low and moderate income housing projects...
...hearing examiner, Margaret Turner, stated in two reports that the removal of the 16-unit apartment building would aggravate Cambridge's shortage of housing. Her report also rejected Harvard's argument that because it had "created" other rental units, it should be allowed to remove the one property...
...also a major test of the city's removal ordinance, which is slightly more than a year old. Designed primarily to thwart condominium developers, the ordinance requires board approval before taking a rent-controlled property off the rental market...