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...Harvard has been quietly selling small wooden-framed houses to its teachers on a priority basis in order to offer faculty a chance to live closer to campus. By selling to owners who must occupy these homes, the University takes the property out from under the city's stringent rent control regulations and avoids paying double in property taxes...
...University is not unalterably opposed to a public policy vehicle of inclusionary zoning, says Jacqueline O'Neil', the University's assistant vice president for state and community affairs, "but what has been proposed is very rigid and stringent...
...University is not unalterably opposed to the public policy vehicle of inclusionary zoning for the construction of low- and moderate- income housing," Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant vice president for state and community affairs, said yesterday," but what has been proposed is very rigid, stringent and not well thought...
...resident of Lowell, Healy is credited with guiding the city through the darkest days of Proposition 2 1.2, the 1980 tax-cutting measure, when budget cutbacks and reduced services crippled many Massachusetts municipalities. Last May, Healy submitted the first fiscal plan to comply with the stringent limitations on the city budget since voters approved the tax reduction four years...
...growth rate dropped to 1.6% in the July-September quarter, but the slowdown came too late to have much impact on the election. Moreover, the Federal Reserve realized that it had been too stringent and opened up the money-supply spigot. That helped send the prime rate down to 10.75% by late December. In the fourth quarter, growth picked up to an estimated 2.8% pace. Concluded Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "This year the economy came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb...