Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Developers also bristle at the charge that they singlehandedly produced the housing crisis and try to shift the blame for the shortage on the city's restrictive rent control policy. Indeed, much of the controversy surrounding inclusionary zoning and linkage centers around this perennially volatile issue. Under city rules, rental units built before 1970 are regulated regardless of whether a yuppie or a blue collar worker occupies it. The 16-year-old rent control ordinance currently blankets 17,000 units, or 40 percent of the housing stock...
...biggest barrier to Apple's office invasion will be IBM, whose army of sales and service personnel has fostered fierce devotion among most corporate computer users. Apple has always boasted about its better technology and never worked to make its machines compatible with Big Blue's. But in a shift last week Apple changed its strategy from Blue busting to detente with IBM. Conceding that many firms will rely partially on IBM equipment, Apple has decided it must coexist by devising both software and hardware adapters that will give its machines the ability to communicate with IBM's gear...
Most of all, officials hope that a stronger Dudley House, the key to the plan, will allay the fears of current House residents considering moving to a Cambridge apartment. Bolstering Dudley may mean, at least, forcing more students who move off campus to shift their affiliation to Dudley, rather than stick with their original House...
Largely as a consequence, SUNY's trustees and the heads of its 64 campuses have lacked the authority to build a first-class university. Even Chancellor Wharton cannot shift a secretarial position or substantially expand a department without permission from the state division of the budget. Tuition money is bled away to pay off old construction debts. And there is not enough new money to lure crack faculty or beef up the graduate curriculum. Under the dead hand of such regulations, continues the report, SUNY is "well behind" other major public universities in research and graduate education...
...forms of assistance. Last year alone, federal farm programs cost $7.3 billion, and this year they could run as high as $15 billion. Next month the Reagan Administration will propose to Congress a drastic overhaul of the whole costly system of price and income supports for farmers. The policy shift would slash $7 billion a year from the federal budget deficit and would mean dramatic changes in American farming. Says Agriculture Secretary John Block: "We need to become competitive in pricing and selling our products and get away from controlled production...