Word: 3rd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before proportional representation, before the Progressive Era, Cambridge selected its leaders by wards. Non-partisan conventions would nominate candidates for each of the five wards; the top vote-getters would win one of the ten seats. In its December 3rd issue, the Chronicle reported the proceedings of the nominating process under the headlines "POLITICAL!" "Charles River Railroad vs. The People...League Made with the Prohibitionists...
...Council Transfer SheetNO. TO BE ELECTED Quota 2638 1st Count 2d Count W.Sullivan Surplus 3rd Count D Sullivan Surplus 4th Count McGurk Ruma-Jones 5th Count Hunt 6th Count Okun 7th Count LaTrem-ouille 8th Count Agee 9th Count CaragianesAgee 212 2 214 0 214 2 216 15 15 231 28 259 7 266Bentubo 271 5 276 0 276 3 279 1 280 1 281 3 284 35 319 11 330Caragianes 289 5 294 1 295 1 296 1 298 3 301 1 302 5 307Clinton...
EXHIBIT: "Color Landscapes"; Creative Photography Gallery, 120 Mass Ave., 3rd floor...
...ending with a city in political and cultural decline, destroyed in 1600 B.C. by the invading Hittites. In 1973 the team found a royal palace from the 3rd millennium and, a year later, a small room with 42 tablets, resembling petrified waffles flung across the floor. The cuneiform on some tablets was Sumerian; on others it was indecipherable. Almost 1,000 more tablets were unearthed in September...
...Tell Mardikh strata reveal that Ebla reached its zenith in the middle of the 3rd millennium, around 2300 B.C. It reigned over a vast network of trade routes, lending business expertise to cities hundreds of miles away. A century later it had apparently fallen, its coffers plundered and its walls razed by rivals to the south...