Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silverman's new tenant turned out to be an unwelcome addition. He seemed to have no job and no visible means of support. According to the household staff, he had a way of staring at Silverman that made her uncomfortable and of turning his head away from the house's security camera. And he and Silverman were seen engaging in an angry shouting match. Though he had moved in only three weeks earlier, Silverman was reportedly about to send him packing...
Last summer, my first on this job, I read Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." While reading the misadventures of Wolfe's Sherman McCoy, I searched for the real McCoy among the building's tenants. To my consternation, I could not label any one tenant "most likely to suffer a startling fall from grace after a hit and run accident...
Befitting the ritualistic nature of the tenantdoorman relationship, some tenants have refused to open the door for themselves even when greatly inconvenienced by their abstinence. When my colleague was indisposed on one winter morning, an impatient tenant knocked on the door with his umbrella, beckoning him to open the door. Evidently, enduring snow and sleet was preferable to eschewing pomp and circumstance...
...ostensible security measure, the doormen control all the elevators in the building. In theory, a doorman will recognize a tenant and send him to the appropriate floor once he shows up on the elevator camera. Thus, any criminals wily enough to get by us diligent doormen would still be unable to get up to an apartment. In practice, doormen often daydream and forget who has just returned. While I generally can keep track of everyone on the weekends (when there is only a trickle of people entering or leaving at any time), I can get lost in the incessant comings...
...demise of rent control and the inabilityof rent control advocates to reach a meaningfulaccommodation--because of the stridency of some ofthe tenant advocates--means that serious damage tothe cause of advocacy has been done, in manyrespects," Koocher says...