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...situation has worsened, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have begun to impose stricter conditions on countries receiving aid. These include devaluation of inflated currencies, realistic exchange controls, scaled-back development projects and more efficient administration of loans...
...register these complaints, the Cambridge Rent Control Coalition (CRCC) is pushing a non-binding, six-point referendum on Tuesday's ballot which would advocate an even more restrictive stance, including an increase in public and private funds for rehabilitation of low cost housing, stricter vacancy controls, capping rent increase and inclusionary zoning laws. The campaign has divided along the traditional conservative/liberal split. But both sides agree that, with 70 percent of the city considered tenants, the referendum will easily pass. Whether it will mean anything hangs on the city council elections on the same day. If the current even split...
...stricter accounting procedures, including "effort reporting" that requires researchers to detail how they spend their time, should prevent any questioning of researchers, integrity. While this will put added burdens of time and cost on all university research, federal officials point out the cost of such record-keeping is included in all government grants...
...Nuclear-Free Cambridge referendum, to be voted on November 8, may restrict the program's freedom to conduct basic nuclear research, Bloembergen said. "It will keep stricter tabs" on the program's researchers, he said...
...Justices, some of whom have publicly deplored the endless delays in executions, held that the appeals court's action was "tolerable," if not "the preferred procedure," and went on to permit stricter limitations on repeated habeas corpus petitions and on when courts must grant stays. "Truly perverse," said Dissenter Marshall, contending that an inmate condemned to death now has fewer protections than other prisoners. Though civil rights lawyers did not think there would be any immediate increase in executions, all federal courts are free to move with greater dispatch on the habeas corpus petitions of 1,200 death...