Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There are moments like these in the stories when Oates is simply too clever, too conscious of being a writer. More often, her tyranny relaxes into an awesome demonstration of control. One of the most remarkable stories in the collection is a series of "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters," conceived by a young woman to be sent to her parents, husband, and lover, also his wife and daughter, a genius who at six wrote "tidy, little poems like Blake's." The sense of desperateness and guilt that these letters evoke taints the final fragment to her lover with an almost ghoulish bitterness...
After listening to over three hours of tumultuous debate from more than 300 tenants and landlords who packed the City Council chambers last night, the Council passed a motion which will significantly change the current administration procedures for rent control in Cambridge...
They should have known better than to try to control him. Son of a freewheeling, Harvard-educated Greek immigrant, Cassavetes grew up in an upper-middle class Long Island home where the parents "allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down." Cassavetes majored in English at Colgate and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but the hell with all that. "I'm a New York...
...created in 1938, it had little difficulty raising money for its mortgage loans on the private market; but all of these borrowed funds went on the Treasury's books as red ink, swelling the federal deficit. So Fannie Mae became a private corporation in 1968, and last May control of its board of directors passed into the hands of its 7,300 private stockholders. Nevertheless, Fannie Mae remains by law a "corporate instrumentality of the U.S.," and many crucial decisions concerning its borrowing, dividends and other matters are subject to approval by George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban...
Wrestling at 150 pounds, captain Pat Coleman narrowed the Wesleyan lead to 11-6, as he stayed in complete control of his bout throughout, picked up two points riding time...