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...bill was written under pressure from real estate lobbyists and without consultations of tenant groups, Businger said, adding that it may cause landlords who want to get rid of their tenants to increase rents...
...problem that Deng and his colleagues have most successfully confronted is the nettlesome one of succession. Two months ago at an important Communist Party plenum, Deng got rid of most of the radical holdovers on the all-powerful Politburo. Now speculation centers on whether Deng, who is 75, will voluntarily step down from his government, but not party posts, as he has been hinting. That alone would be an unprecedented gesture in a country where, as one senior official recently complained, "we generally either stay in office until we die or we do something so bad we get thrown...
...dollar for oil. With their citizens freezing or deprived of gasoline during some future energy crisis, governments would doubtless be under extreme pressure to make concessions in Middle East politics. Warns one top oil expert in New York: "Some day consumers may look back and regret they got rid of the political insulation that the majors provided...
...representative Margaret C. Hern said yesterday, "Corrigan used a technicality about contract signing as a reason to get rid of Bondy," adding that "the same technicality applies to about 30 faculty members who weren...
Noguchi's work, in its appeal to ancient and immutable archetypes of experience projected through an extremely refined (but never precious) taste, has always possessed a bracing clarity, a power to rid the mind of its daily rubbish and replace the clutter with a strictness of feeling released by apparently simple objects. Noguchi is 75, and at present three exhibitions in Manhattan celebrate his anniversary: a show of his theater and public-space designs at the Whitney Museum, a group of "landscape tables" at the Andre Emmerich Gallery and a number of smaller stone pieces at the Pace Gallery...