Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With an arsenal of tactics including letter writing, negotiations, lawsuits, and rallies and marches, EFZ has emerged as local tenants' primary defenders against evictions and steep rent increases...
...certain cases, EFZ will urge tenants to issue a series of increasingly public challenges to landlords, starting with a letter to the City Council...
After submitting a letter of interest, applicants were interviewed by the class marshals and by Associate Director of Classes and Reunions Diane Jellis...
...Then two weeks ago, he abruptly retired, walking away from a job that made him the fifth-highest-paid college president in the country, with salary and benefits that Forbes magazine estimated at $524,000 last year. "Together we have built a wonderful dream," Roche said in his resignation letter. "We have proved that integrity, values and courage can still triumph in a corrupt world." No one answered the door at Roche's home, and he did not return calls seeking comment...
Marveling at songs that "grabbed your soul out of your body and scrubbed it clean before putting it back," Alterman finds literary power and lessons to live by in Springsteen's work. Part biography, part lyrical deconstruction and part fan letter, Alterman's book locates the singer-songwriter's strength in his ability to connect the small struggles of the common man with the broad political and social forces that engulf us, and to do so with a human touch...