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Enter condominium conversion. A landlord can convert a 15-unit apartment building worth $200,000 into 15 condominiums that sell for $25,000 or more apiece. To make the conversion even more popular, a high percentage of Cambridge's housing stock is old and often in need of major repairs. By converting, the owner can unload his property without major expense and still cash in on the laws of supply and demand...
Arthur Fitzhugh, an agent in the University police's crime prevention unit, said yesterday that the police and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, are considering the proposals, but have not yet decided whether to implement them...
Elsewhere in the department the suspension is a touchy subject. Antonelli is in the hospital and could not be reached for comment this week, but Thomas McDonough, head of the unit where Antonelli and Vellucci worked, stresses that he does not want the department's investigation to become an electoral football. "Whatever we have done--and that includes disciplinary action--has been in the best interests of the Tax Department. It's a dead issue," he says...
...more important to him than the money he hoped to win. Again and again Jerry Jeff sang about men lost in the shuffle of modernization and mobility, men incapable of forming roots and finding stability and meaning in life, men no longer a part of a tightly-knit social unit but standing completely alone instead...
...flock to the suburbs where neighbors move in and out so fast that any social bonds cannot last. The work force there is mobile. The chief mode of business is the monolithic, impersonal corporation, in which ties between workers are weak, and the alienation is intense. The only social unit becomes the family, not the community. And without the community to instill respect for conjugal ties, families often dissolve. Men, women and children are left alone and isolated in a volatile, confusing world...