Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Much of the council's first months have been spent grappling with two problems left over by its predecessor-both dealing with the city's 20-year old system of rent control. While both were finally put to rest after long procedural battles, the council has had little time to discuss new rent control initiatives...
...members of the anti-rent control Small Property Owners Association (SPOA) maintain that the council still has not made good on its promise to ease the burdens rent control places on them...
...while the council has taken almost no action to curb development in the city, CCA backers say that one of the key problems they face lies in the composition of city boards and commissions--an area of government over which the council has no direct control...
When Jack R. Meyer arrives at the Harvard Management Corporation (HMC) president's office on Atlantic Ave. this September, he will take control of a vast investment empire which has expanded through a series of financial markets--each one more sophisticated and riskier--since its creation...
Accusations of wrongdoing paralyzed the board and Romano, who believed that the payment was improper, became factionalized and isolated for what he says was the first time of his life. He lost control of the administration and failed to find a path out of the crisis...