Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RENT CONTROL IS hardly an exciting issue. The vast fog of conflicting data thrown up by the opposing factions of tenants and landlords makes the issue, at best, confusing. And yet rent control is of critical importance, especially to a city such as Cambridge. Not only does 90 per cent of the city's population rent, a large proportion of its wealth is tied up directly or indirectly (through property taxes) in its housing supply. The present rent control law ends this year, so the state legislature must decide on its extension, amendment or repeal in the coming months...
...industry. The way to do this is to inform Americans that there is nothing sacred or mystical about our current economic organization and that there are alternatives that do not produce great disparities in wealth and alienation as well as corporate tyranny, letting the examples themselves excite the vast majority of Americans to force entrenched capital out of the driver's seat through the legal system. What he's talking about is a non-violent workers' takeover of industry, a takeover that would provide the social basis for a political democracy in this country that has been lacking since Jefferson...
...what? Some Western commentators jumped to the conclusion that it was a triumph for Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's middle-of-the-road policies at home and detente abroad as against Shelepin's supposedly hard-lining Stalinism. Actually, Shelepin has consistently praised Brezhnev not only for his "vast personal contribution" to economic and political cooperation with the West but also for his handling of key domestic issues...
...Weather Service's radar operators. When the moths landed, they clogged factory ventilators and auto radiators; their crushed bodies coated highways with a slippery, accident-causing goo; in some places, people shoveled the bugs off their porches like snow. But most of the moths ended up in the vast forests, where they quietly laid billions and billions of eggs in preparation for this spring's attack, which promises to be the worst in 56 years...
Profiles of students who did take voluntary leaves show the vast majority left for personal reasons such as "personal growth" or time to think and relax. Over 80 per cent worked for some of their leave, while almost three-quarters traveled for part of the time. About 60 per cent had specific plans before they left school...