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...plan would require eligible tenants to contribute between 2 and 5 percent of their incomes to a fund for the upkeep of rent-controlled housing. Low-income tenants, the disabled and the elderly would be able to apply for exemptions from the surcharge...
Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants' Union (CTU), said that the main problem with the tenant surcharge is that it will be a move in the direction of government subsidies for owners. Currently, owners of rent-controlled properties charge rent based on upkeep costs...
Communist spokesmen said their party headquarters had indeed sent two payments totaling $63 million to Moscow in September, before German unification took place. The money, they said, was for support of communist students and upkeep on a youth training center in the Soviet capital...
Still, with upkeep of a 105-ft. by 84-ft. lawn running about $4,000 a year and a set of croquet equipment costing as much as $3,500, the sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along...
Much of the money covers the upkeep on his three Pharaonic homes. The annual maintenance for Trump's 45-room spread in Greenwich, Conn., comes to an estimated $400,000. His Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., costs about $1 million a year to run. His allowance will also have to cover $650,000 in annual support payments for his estranged wife Ivana and their three children. Exempted from the budget is Trump's fancy transportation, which is up for sale: his $30 million yacht, the 282-ft. Trump Princess (he says he wants $115 million...