Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because council liberals depend on Vellucci vote to keep the city's rent control and anti-condominium ordinances intact, Vellucci is in a strong position to ask for their votes. "Over a barrel would not be an inaccurate description," a long time city political leader said last week...
...element of the moral de-authoritization of the older generation so essential to the rise of a student movement never emerged." He spoke a moment too soon. It was all coming together: the escalating, attention-getting tactics of the civil rights movement; the new wholesale liberation through the birth-control pill from traditional sexual patterns; and the growth of a hedonistic, re-programming counter-culture among the young...
John Marcum, senior advisor to the president for technology and arms control, said yesterday the committee hoped to conclude its work by the end of this month
...words "predetermined by biological fact" found on the cover of On Human Nature, or the quote, "We are bound as inextricably to our heritage as we are to the shapes of our eyes," from The Genesis Factor. Much of human sociobiology rests upon the speculative assumption of genetic control for social behavior (for which there is not one shred of evidence) with the explicit conclusion that the knowledge of the human genotype will place, limits on the possible forms of social organization accessible to humans. In fact, there is simply no basis for this conclusion in genetic theory...
...letter mailed to the city Rent Control Board, members of the Tenants Committee said they had mistakenly charged Harvard with violating a Cambridge ordinance requiring developers to obtain permits before renovating...