Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...viewed by the recipient as a near insult, a naive and flawed view of the forces at work among Arabs. During the months that the Panama Canal treaties were being discussed, Carter worried in his secret meetings about the fact that the U.S. had never admitted guilt in grabbing control in the Canal Zone and demanding absolute rule there. His hang-up on this point came from the popular book...
...Cambridge is in a housing crisis of another sort. Angry at the loss in their earning power and justifiably upset with the bureaucratic inefficiencies of rent control, the city's landlords are looking for a way out. For a while it was condominiums, until the city adopted tough laws to stop the condo spread...
...years ago, the city was in a housing crisis. That translated into evictions and rent strikes and piles of furniture out on the sidewalk. The response: Cambridge adopted a rent control ordinance that set strict rent hike and eviction guidelines...
Susan O'Brien, 35, of San Antonio, the divorced mother of a teen-age son, feels as if she is being hounded out of the mainstream of life. Seven months ago, she was laid off from her position as a quality control reviewer for the Texas Department of Human Resources, which administers the state's welfare programs. Says she: "When you lose your job your friends stop coming by, and when you keep getting turned down at interviews you begin to have doubts, to wonder whether there is something wrong with you." This month her unemployment benefit checks...
Keeping one's love life under control is not always so easy. Nearly a quarter of the women like me have had abortions. Maybe that's because the same number don't use any form of birth control. But I do. Roger likes me because of that. Roger is my eighth lover, which is average for a single woman living alone. He is married, but I can cope with that, especially since one out of every two women like me have had similar affairs. And most have enjoyed the experience, even though 45% say they wouldn...