Word: would
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Buoyed by voters' overwhelming rejection of the referendum--which would have dramatically altered the city's rent control system--opponents of 1-2-3 scored a political coup. In last week's elections, pro-tenant councillors secured six of the nine seats on City Council--the highest majority since...
Proposition 1-2-3 would have allowed some tenants in rent-controlled housing to buy their apartments, thus removing them from the city's stock of affordable housing. Such a change, critics argued, would drive low-income families out of the city by giving landlords an extra incentive to rent to the wealthy...
...Each president has his own specific reasons," Orleans said yesterday. "But I think one explicit reason was the difficulty that the game would conflict with the exam schedules of certain schools...
Perhaps this letter should be addressed directly to Professor Blumenthal. But if the word is out on my generation, I would at least like to get my own in edgewise before the word, at least among Harvard students, becomes Professor Blumenthal's "Base Compromise...
...certainlicense" of his 40th year. There is, to my mind, something inherently parental--or, anagramatically, paternal--about both the stature granted by his academic position and the stature concomitant with his age. His "certain license" is more a "certain censure" should we not take up his passionate lance. Nor would Professor Blumenthal want it any other...