Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reservations for special meals and then ask the flight attendant if by any chance an extra veggie entree has gone unclaimed. Since special orders are so frequently fouled up anyway, either tactic is likely to beat the system. But even if passengers get the meal they ordered, they may wish they hadn't. Vegetarian meals, though not mystery meat, may be mystery mush. Another ploy is a double setup: two sets of rolls and salads and no main course...
Surprisingly, that low rate of homeownership is required by local law. The vast majority of tenants are forbidden by city ordinance from buying their own apartment, even if they wish to buy it and their landlord wishes to sell it to them. (The only current exceptions are owner-occupied one-, two- and three family homes, new construction, and tenants who were lucky enough to have moved into their apartment before August...
Proposition 1 says that if you have been a tenant in a rent-controlled apartment for two years, and if you wish to buy your home (and if your landlord wishes to sell it to you), you can do so. Under Proposition 1, you will not be required to buy. If you prefer, you can continue to rent forever at a low, rentcontrolled rent, just as you can now. But under Proposition 1, you will be given your choice...
PROPOSITION 1 unthaws the values that forebidding homeownership has kept frozen, providing immediate and substantial benefits to both current tenants and landlords. The tenants who do not wish to buy may still see a better-run building because their landlord, after having sold a few units, will no longer be as financially strapped as before, and because other units, now owner-occupied, will begin to reflect pride of ownership...
...Whalers want MacDonald to come to Hartford as soon as the Crimson's season is over. Assistant General Manager Bob Crocker would like to see MacDonald in a Hartford uniform for this year's NHL playoffs. But Crocker is not likely to get his wish...