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...surprise announcement, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci told the council that he had discussed ways to improve the city's rent control system with Michael H. Turk and William S. Noble of the Cambridge Tenants Union. Vellucci indicated the two would support a means test--which would link tenants' eligibility for rent control to their income...
Such a proposal has long been a pet idea of Councillor William H. Walsh, a vocal critic of the city's current rent-control system who has often drawn criticism from Turk for his close ties to the real estate industry...
Walsh said he was delighted that Turk had come around, but, alas, the Turk-Walsh alliance was not to be. In response to Walsh's comments, Turk told the council that Vellucci had misstated his group's position...
...course, I make this offer safe in the knowledge that there will always be some poor Turk ready to undercut me. So maybe, because of who the sellers inevitably will be, the sale of kidneys is by its very nature exploitation. A father shouldn't have to sacrifice a kidney to get a necessary operation for his daughter. Unfortunately, banning the kidney sale won't solve the problem of paying for the operation. Nor can the world yet afford expensive operations for everyone who needs one. And leaving aside the melodrama of the daughter's operation, we don't stop...
...mishaps involving its planes, even though the company has not been found responsible for any since the crash of a poorly repaired Japan Air Lines 747 in 1985. Experts give the company high marks for advising airlines of potential safety problems and ways to correct them. Says Paul Turk, vice president of Avmark Inc., a leading aviation consultant: "Boeing is taking a lot of hits because most of the older jets flying are Boeings. But the facts are that the industry, and Boeing specifically, is recognizing the problems and responding...