Word: stringent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year old Sullivan told The Crimson Sunday evening that he also would push for reforming the city's rent control and condominium conversion laws in the next two years. But Sullivan, who was last mayor in 1974, said that he would not try to eradicate Cambridge's stringent housing laws...
...years Moscow's stringent ideological standards have kept Soviet artists and writers in a creative straitjacket. To some, however, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's recent calls for more "openness" and "grass-roots creativity" signaled that a new age was about to dawn. Apparently intent on extending that proposition to literature, Soviet Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 52, delivered a rousing speech before a congress of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation objecting to the limitations placed on writers by the state. Judging by the official caution with which the Soviet press last week reported his address, he may have spoken...
...Cambridge Historical Commission, Harvard was told to reconsider its demolition plans; the University later agreed to reduce the number of dorm rooms and preserve the turreted building. At the Rent Control Board, Harvard planners were most recently ordered to place three apartments under the city's stringent housing laws...
Officials said B.U. changed its policy in compliance with the new Massachussetts law raising the official drinking age from 20 to 21 and in response to more stringent insurance standards...
Under New York City's stringent rent control and housing preservation laws, Columbia's tenants were entitled to have their apartments rebuilt and their leases renewed at the same rent level. But even after months of negotiations and a successful lawsuit against Columbia, the landlord continued to let the building deteriorate without regard for the tenants still out on the street...