Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...votes to override Romney vetoes on three key bills: 1) a measure extending $4,000,000 in homestead tax exemptions to disabled Michigan war veterans and their widows; 2) a $1,200,000 appropriation for eight money-starved state colleges; and 3) a $6,000,000 rent-subsidy program for the elderly. Romney insisted that tax relief for veterans should be based on individual need and disability, objected to the school appropriation on the grounds that it should await completion of an exhaustive study of Michigan's overloaded college system, and reasoned that rent assistance would be impossible...
...persuasion. At the one-day special session, despite three hours of floor wrangling and a gallery packed with shouting supporters of the bill, house Democrats failed to win even one Republican. Senate Democrats fared no better, failed to roll back Romney's veto on the school and rent bills...
...cross a continent with a $2,300,000 Rembrandt without hiring a rent-a-tank? Play Santa Claus. California Industrialist Norton Simon, 58, had Rembrandt's Titus brought to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Museum Registrar Frieda Kay Fall, who gift-wrapped it at Washington's National Gallery where it's been hanging for the past six months, labeled it "To Mother" and put it under her seat on the flight home...
...yawns nowhere wider than in France, where 51 years of rent control have helped create a gargantuan housing shortage. Thus it is not surprising that the French have enthusiastically greeted an invasion by Long Island's William J. Levitt, the U.S.'s biggest homebuilder (fiscal 1965 sales: $60 million). More than 60,000 Frenchmen have poured out of Paris to gape at Levitt's recently opened American-style subdivision in suburban Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis...
...liberal" strategy was first employed by Governor Warren and his successor, Goodwin J. Knight. Warren unveiled a program that included such previously unheard of measures as rent control and a fair employment practices act. What he was quite consciously doing was taking enough New Deal-like positions to attract a hefty segment of California's largely non-committed voters...