Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread sentiment in Congress that economies, if any, should trim the new Great Society ventures rather than successful existing programs. Even the President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with herculean effort. Part of a $2.8 billion supplemental appropriations bill for this fiscal year, the rent scheme met determined resistance from Republicans, who argued that it would inevitably require far more than the initial seed money, and from Southern Democrats, who feared it would lead...
Operation Igloo. The rent program has had rocky going right from the very beginning. Intended to help handicapped, low-income and other needy families pay their rent in nonprofit private housing, the scheme was authorized last summer by Congress, which thereupon withheld the appropriations to get it started. This year, House Republicans mounted a bruising floor fight and barely failed to scuttle the rent-subsidy funds; last week, in the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republicans and Southern Democrats succeeded in eliminating them...
...tentatively suggested. The group is also expected to provide anti-highway signs and help raise money for the proposed study. Its present empoverished financial condition was emphasized, however, when Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local community leader in the Brookline-Elm St. area, pleaded for $50 to pay the rent for "Save Our Cities" temporary headquarters...
Handyman & Thief. Gennaro is coffinmaker, wreathmaker, funeral-insurance salesman, handyman, business manager, and hearse driver. He is also poor, and in Naples that means powerless. Caught without a chauffeur's license, he is slapped with a staggering fine and forbidden to drive. In debt for tobacco, rent, and worst of all, for coffin lumber, he limps through one hand-mangling day heaving shovelfuls of earth for a huge industrial corporation-and gets fired for incompetence. Employed in a sizzling restaurant kitchen, he is falsely accused of theft, gets fired again...
Retaining 83-Brattle as undergraduate housing would ease the immediate housing crisis without causing the financial drain the College fears. If undergraduates were allowed to live in the building on a full room-and-board basis, the gross income to Radcliffe would far exceed the rent the college will collect from other tenants...