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...when his father, the brash and bold William Zeckendorf Sr., lost his fortune, which in the early 1960s might have been worth as much as $500 million. The son has been relatively cautious, but he is nevertheless feeling the pinch. His Zeckendorf Towers in Manhattan lost its largest commercial tenant, Integrated Resources, when the investment syndicator filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Still, because most of his debts are corporate and not personal, Zeckendorf stands to lose a relatively modest $7 million...
Reeves, who used his status as a rent-controlled tenant as a selling-point in his campaign last year, labeled the story a "hatchet...
Private initiative must carry a larger share of responsibility, but in combination with more intelligent, imaginative and flexible government policies that tie social services to incentives for self-help. These may range from vouchers to enterprise zones to tenant ownership of housing projects. The principle of combining social responsibility with individual initiative, compassion with reward for effort, suggests that the U.S. must partially reinvent capitalism -- and do a more imaginative job of it than the heavily welfare-statist economies of Europe that are increasingly retreating from socialism...
Marina had moved into our neighborhood of Austin a few years ago with her husband and two children. As we ran, I learned from my mother that the Justices had divorced the previous spring and Marina now lived alone, except for a tenant on the top floor of the mansion and frequent visits from her children. So we were only able to get her next-door neighbor, George, and her neighbor from across the street, who were about to carpool to work together...
...Martin's was packed. The organ played old Catholic hymns, a bit out of place, but comforting. Marina's employer eulogized her. One of the boys who'd turned her over broke down, saying he wanted to say how sorry he was he never knew her. Marina's tenant told how they'd become fast friends over the past year. Alderman Davis, who maybe met her once, stood up near the end and gave a long-winded speech insisting that Marina Justice Must Not be Forgotten...