Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close more than 300 of the 1,475 offices they operated two years ago. Those who are able to make their way to a legal aid office are often turned away. The attorneys are too overworked to handle many of the divorce and child-custody cases, landlord-tenant disputes and other routine problems that are the bulk of their work...
...unlucky to alter the course of their lives. "Distressed gentlewoman" is a phrase that echoes sadly through her writing. The Sweet Dove Died-an exception among her novels, since neither clergymen nor anthropologists figure in it-is about a vain, middle-aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin up several flights of stairs to heat her top-floor flat. In Quartet in Autumn, Pym's bleakest and most critically acclaimed book, two women and two men who share an office regard retirement with a collective dread. Their work...
...meeting which ended at 12:30 a.m. In the first part of the meeting, the city officials rejected another request to place a referendum on the ballot. The Cambridge Rent Control Coalition had asked the councilors to place on the ballot a non-binding six-part plan to stem tenant displacement...
Willium Noble, a member of the Coalition said the organization would over the next 10 days conflect signatures as put the question before the voters. Because it would be nonbinding, the tenant question follows different procedures than the Nuclear Free Cambridge initiative...
...these groups divide along two main political bloes. The city's high tenant populations joins hands with the white collar professionals the back the Cambridge Civic Association--a liberal coalition which, at age 40, is the nation's oldest municipal party. They are opposed by the more traditional ethnic and the landholders, who make up the Independents. Every add-numbered year is an election year (this being no exception) and at that time, the two groups fight over governing. The rest of the time they fight over issues. A brief explanation of both...