Word: rule
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...campaign and the EFZ advocate measures including passing a local condominium conversion law and home rule...
...conversion law would prevent landlords from making previously affordable housing units into condominiums. Home rule would grant Cambridge the ability to keep certain housing--that had been subsidized by the government--under rent control...
...Prince's ultrarich uncles, the eldest sons of Ibn Saud, who rule Saudi Arabia today, have accumulated their wealth mainly by diverting huge sums, directly or indirectly, from the government's extravagant oil revenues. As a Riyadh businessman puts it, Alwaleed's branch of the Saud family tree has always been considered a little smoother and a little straighter than the rest. His father Talal, a former Ambassador to France, was one of the "free princes" who demanded democratization and went into temporary exile during the troubled 1953-64 reign of King Saud. Alwaleed's mother, Princess Mona...
...nothing that nature made single births the rule. Human babies, with their extended infancy and years of dependency, may be the hardest of all young to raise. The McCaugheys may be warmed by television lights this week, but history suggests that when the lights go off, the new parents will need all the help they...
Meantime, however, a couple of cheers for Coppola, who satisfies at least one ruling critical principle: any movie that offers successful employment to Mickey Rourke and Teresa Wright cannot be all bad. He's the only shyster in town who's willing to take a chance on young Rudy; she's his landlady who is nowhere near as ditsy as she looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously...