2. RELIGION may be defined as beliefs and patterns of behavior by which people try to deal with what they view as important problems that canât be solved by other means: e.g. the need to confront and explain life and death. All cultures have religions, which are powerful and dynamic forces in human society.
Rent control, or rent stabilization, is a collection of laws that restrict the rents a landlord can charge and limits the reasons for eviction. The two work together, so that the landlord doesn't get around a rent limit by evicting the tenant, instead, or vice versa.
In the early '80s, engineers, designers and marketing people discuss an evil plot to control consumer media with a hidden camera feature called Automatic Gain Control. The year is 1983. A small group of corporate types huddle in a dimly-lit, smoked-filled board room.