Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faces devastating social discrimination. He can legally be excluded from any kind of employment, public or private, barred by labor unions, denied housing, mortgage, credit insurance, even public accomodations. In all 50 states he is deemed unfit to teach school. In each case, he is judged as a worker, tenant or customer not by his credentials for such activities, but by how he conducts his private life...
...student, however, the extent of private industry rip-off is liable to be less serious than for those making their way in the world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people...
...cases happily, as their more informal nature allows the opposing parties to break through stumbling blocks like pride and anger and get through to the underlying problem, which oftentimes has little or nothing to do with the original grievance. The majority of cases, explains Skoler, are between acquaintances. Landlord-tenant cases abound, followed by longterm customer service cases and family or neighbor squabbles. Another common case involves the "I bought it; it broke" syndrome, though with a thousand variations on a theme...
Another typically screwball case occurred again between landlord and tenant. The "refrigerator case" originated when a woman leased an apartment from a new landlord two weeks before moving in, bought a refrigerator and stocked it with groceries to have ready when she moved in. The woman arrived two weeks later and found no trace of food or refrigerator. The landlord, it turned out, was a heroin addict who had eaten all the groceries and then sold the fridge to finance his habit. The woman won the case easily, and moved in the next...
...want to buy as soon as I find out what I'm going to be doing.' " One Ford Republican, however, was farsighted. When Carter was elected, he rented out his McLean house and moved back to California. But he put one clause in the lease: the tenant had 30 days to vacate if a Republican became President...