Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...precipitated by the unconscionable rent-gouging permitted by a "free-market" as presently seen in Cambridge. A majority of the city council intends to preserve the diversity of Cambridge through a housing policy, including rent control, which makes it possible for all income groups--the poor, low, moderate, middle, upper-middle and wealthy--to live in Cambridge...
...Cynics have had the upper hand for the past three weekends. The Cynics point out that the Harvard football team hadn't lost three consecutive shutouts since dinosaurs walked the earth...
Protection of the poor has always been advanced as the primary justification for rent control; however, it is the middle-and upper-middle classes who are the primary beneficiaries of the system. Such middle-and upper-middle income people are given a subsidy unrelated to their needs and a "moral justification" for receiving it. After all, rent control in Cambridge, according to its enabling act, was a response to a housing emergency that was burdensome "especially for families of low and moderate income." The truth is that the system doesn't especially benefit low-and moderate-income people...
...study by Herbert Leonard of Harvard found that one third of people living in rent controlled housing in Cambridge were upper-income and professional people. While studying at MIT, Ann Jaroscewicz found that this proportion had increased to 55 percent...
UConn's Linda Jackson dribbled on Whitley's left, drawing the Crimson defense. With the middle vacated, Jackson crossed to teammate Kerri Koziell in front of the goal. Koziell drilled a shot past Whitley into the upper left corner of the Crimson...