Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increases took effect this summer as a City Councillor claimed that Harvard was charging rents below market rate in the buildings. He has since stopped calling the apartments underpriced but still says the University benefits unfairly from the units' tax-exempt status...
Walsh wrote that Harvard enjoys "the best of both worlds" because the University can "invoke tax-exempt status for affiliated housing...turn around and rent it at full market value...claim the exemption and thereby be assured that those units [affiliated housing complexes] are not under rent control...
...Council also voted last night to have the City Solicitor look into the legal status of the land...
...member of the first generation of English poets to emerge in the shadow of Eliot's fame, calls him "perhaps the greatest poet of the 20th century." Donald Hall, who has published nine books of poetry and who interviewed Eliot for the Paris Review in 1959, observes, "His status as a minor poet is secure. He is not coming back into vogue." But the final truth, as Eliot so often suggested, may lie somewhere in the rack and ruin of the middle distance. His claims were modest. He asked only for a hearing -- say, between cleaning up after supper...
Regulations like these also douse the simple joy of dressing, not for success or status, but just as self-expression. Abraham Mora, a junior at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School, has packed away his tie-dye Ts ("so trendy now") in favor of Girbaud jeans and Cole-Haan loafers. "Just look at me," says Michael Barnett, a junior at Washington's Field School who sports a vigorously declarative print shirt. "I'm a wild and crazy guy. With dress codes you don't get to see other people's personalities, just the same old clothes." Brand-name sportswear, from...