Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 150 tenants, including representatives of 15 Cambridge tenant unions, forced the City Council to hold an unscheduled hearing last night, at which they demanded that the present Rent Control Board (RCB) either be replaced with a tenant-elected board or be required to obey the Rent Control regulations...
...help in taking back his goods without first giving a hearing to the customer accused of being delinquent. Since then, repossession statutes have been quietly dying in a number of states, most recently in Alaska, Iowa and Massachusetts. Along with repossession, the lower courts have taken up landlord-and-tenant laws, as well as the conduct of state-regulated utilities. In Colorado, New York, Ohio and Minnesota, gas and electric companies have now been warned that they may no longer automatically shut off service when a computer says the bill has gone unpaid for too long. The customer...
George Nadjarian, a member of the Cambridge Property Owners Association, told the Council that many small landlords cannot afford lawyers or time off from work to seek notices on tenants who refuse to pay rents. He cited the case of one landlord who lost $406 in back rent while waiting seven months to obtain an eviction notice on a non-paying tenant...
Wooden's own pyramid of success is rooted back home in Indiana. Son of a Dutch-Irish tenant farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players...
Evans said that even if black students are now concerned with the black community, they "cannot empathize with it because the vast majority of these students have never lived in a ghetto or on a tenant farm...