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...York City. Graduating from dormitory and dining hall food status to become a Young Urban Professional, I was amazed at how life after college could change so drastically and immediately. From one month's pay check to the next, I would have to keep track of bills, rent, food and clothes. I would work and earn money to survive, and worry about things like savings and IRAs. I would be truly independent. I felt so mature, so grown...
...independent, making a decent salary, the broker wanted me to run back to mommy and daddy for help. Initially I took the brokers' words at face value. I called my father immediately, thinking he'd be happy to sign a piece of paper making him ultimately responsible for our rent. But he was not so willing, advising me to be more firm with the broker and not to agree to his every request. Perhaps the broker was not being entirely honest. Perhaps there was room for negotiation...
...four candidates expressed opposition to the death penalty and said they would support legislated rent control...
...without divisive issues like rent control and the death penalty that have polarized Bay State voters in the recent past, the candidates struggled to define themselves from a policy standpoint...
Although debate attendees asked the candidates about their positions on the death penalty and rent control, their questions failed to inspire much dissension...