Word: transients
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that rent control retards construction and the residents complaining that the landlords are bleeding them dry. The present line-up in the council is a slim majority in favor of rent control, with the Independents now working on a new plan, "vacancy decontrol," which in theory would only affect transient residents...
...Crimson. Other than that, Vellucci said, "we all voted to down-zone mid-Cambridge-we're all for down-zoning." Vellucci now agrees with most of the council that rent control should stay as it is. He had been supporting vacancy decontrol, a measure aimed at students and a transient population, but he said he now believes that "the economy is changing, the squeeze is on, we got to keep rent control like...
...underground revolutionaries. They strike and burrow underground again in such places as the working-class neighborhoods of Los Angeles and the Mission District in San Francisco or the squalid slums of East Oakland and Sacramento. In addition, many terrorists are believed to be hiding among the students and transient street people of Berkeley's South Campus section. Furtive meetings between the underground and aboveground activists undoubtedly take place in the area's many coffeehouses, bars and parking lots. Other good meeting places are the parks known to students as People's Park and Ho Chi Minh Park...
...registrants will support the aims of the convention, Stuart Vidockler, chairman of the Cambridge Convention '75 Steering Committee, said earlier this month. Vidockler said that in ward four alone there are 5000 to 10,000 unregistered voters, many of whom are in the so-called "young and transient" groups likely to support the lobby...
...recollects, he was a family man, an inspirational leader who could exhort his players in a style that might make Pat O'Brien misty. His enmities, claims Leo, were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...