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...same time, manpower shortages caused by the mobilization have brought a drastic decline in public services. Mail deliveries have slowed; telephone service, disrupted by unusually heavy winter rains, is erratic. Most people have found it impossible even to get the telephone repair number to answer...
This problem still exists under rent control. But at least tenants need not be forced to pay outrageous rents for substandard conditions. Substantial rent reductions for substandard housing could force some landlords to make repairs rather than lose their buildings. Rent control can also improve conditions by making it easier for tenants to use the new state "right to repair law," which allows tenants to spend rent money on repairs. And by squeezing out speculators who demand higher profits than the law allows, rent control can remove a significant blighting influence from the community...
...stripping has wreaked havoc on whole areas. In response to public outrage over the scarred and torn land. Congress seems to be close to passing a bill that would make strippers repair the ravaged earth after mining. Such reclamation works well in the rolling, well-watered countryside of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but is difficult in the arid West, and virtually impossible on the steep slopes of West Virginia and Kentucky. In the long run, however, only 5% of the U.S.'s immense reserves are strippable. The rest must be mined by men working in deep shafts...
...best friend. It is also the automobile's most frequent victim. During the dark winter days, when the sun hardly ever shines, approximately 1,700 reindeer are killed by cars each year, at a cost of about $170 each to the hapless owners of the beasts and hefty repair bills to the drivers. The Reindeer Grazers Association thought that it had the answer to the problem last year, when it painted some of the reindeer antlers with a phosphorescent paint that would shine in cars' headlights. So successful was the experiment that not one of the glowing reindeer...
Joseph Nicoloro said the University could be subject to a criminal complaint or condemnation of the building if the Health Department investigates and the University does not repair Matthews's damaged fixtures...