Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matters of Communist Party discipline are settled in secretive party tribunals. Commercial disputes between state enterprises, typically involving delivery delays and complaints about quality, are dealt with by special arbitration panels. Minor civil and criminal matters are handled by Comrades' Courts, which deal with such petty matters as tenant grievances and driver's license suspensions. Under an antihooliganism law enacted in 1966 to cover crimes ranging from disorderly conduct to assault, a patrolman can write up a citizen for minor offenses like rowdyism and public drunkenness, and within 24 hours the chief of police will decide whether...
...faces emerged from the balloting as well; David Sullivan, a young tenant activist trained at Harvard Law School, ran an astonishing second citywide, challenging perennial kingpin Walter J. Sullivan as the city's most popular politician...
...issues, voting against condo conversion and for rent control. And on the CCA's part, Sullivan may be doing more than any of his colleagues to expand the organization beyond its Brattle St. roots and elitist reputation. His last campaign was a coalition triumph--he won with votes from tenant activists, CCA regulars and elderly voters pried from a lifelong habit of voting for Independents by their fear of condominium conversion. "The initials CCA strike fear into too many hearts in this city to make me think that the CCA per se will ever make major inroads" into building...
Condominium conversion, when it occurs, seems guaranteed to force an exodus of low- and moderate-income tenants and elderly residents, probably along with many "transients"--students for the most part--who are the butt of numerous attacks from city developers. The study shows they will likely be replaced by higher income owners, for the most part young professionals (attracted by the city's budding high technology industries). They will be single, or, if married, have few children. "That is the definition of gentrification," Councilor David Sullivan--who won his seat with heavy tenant backing--says...
...bill was written under pressure from real estate lobbyists and without consultations of tenant groups, Businger said, adding that it may cause landlords who want to get rid of their tenants to increase rents...