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					  <title><![CDATA[The Empty Nesters]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[An elderly retired couple,]]></description>
					  <author>no@spam.com (Angelina Esposito)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Keeping Track of the Bottom Line]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[It's a typical scenario. The board and managing agent assemble for the regular monthly meeting. Things get lively and everyone participates. The group discusses staff issues, makes decisions about the tile color in the laundry room and directs management to post signs about hot water downtime. Then it's time for the monthly financial report, and a lull falls over the room. While the managing agent and treasurer launch into a discussion about year-to-date budgeted versus actual expenditures, several board membersuncomfortable with discussions involving calculations or financestune out. They flip absently through the pages of the monthly financial report to create the illusion of involvement; but, in reality, they're confused, and hopeful that the financial discussion won't last too long. Eventually the meeting moves on to a new topic and everyone is back in the loop again.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Barbara Dershowitz)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[The Shareholder Versus the Board]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[When it comes to key security, most co-op shareholders and other tenants have no choice but to trust in their building manager. That's because New York state law requires tenants to provide landlords with duplicate keys, if requested. Whether that key goes into a locked box in the superintendent's office, hangs in an open cabinet next to the doorman or is placed in a high-tech key management system depends on building policy.
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Ann Malaspina)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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					  <title><![CDATA[Capital Improvement Projects]]></title>
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					  <description><![CDATA[Lucky are the board members of co-ops and condos who are able to play a purely supervisory role, simplyoverseeing the work of the managing agent who has the serious job of taking care of the building. In the vast majority of cases, however, board members find themselves facing one crisis after anotherthe boiler breaks down, the air conditioning chiller fails, the roof leak keeps getting worseand maintenance expenses that are consistently over budget. 
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					  <author>no@spam.com (Barbara M. Sagan)</author>
					  <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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