Word: apportionments
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But it is unclear how much long-term good the protesting will do. Boston's problems this year have been created by its politicians; next fiscal year's even bigger crisis will be largley thanks to state voters and Proposition 2 1/2. Like every other city in the Commonwealth, Boston...
The auspicious start is important. Canada is upset over the decision by Reagan earlier this month to withdraw part of a treaty, signed two years ago but held up in the Senate by New England opponents, that would apportion fishing rights in the rich Georges Bank fishery off the East...
But not to Leonel Castillo, the next talker. This former director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service saw the American Dream up close: his job was to apportion it. "I'm torn" he says:
But Japan's system of capitalism does provide a lesson for the U.S. in one crucial respect. The nation's power elite, which shapes and guides the course of the economy as a whole, practices a democratic ideal that individualistic Americans claim as their own but often seem...
That a poor and thinly populated state should suddenly seem a major battleground is one of the odder quirks of this year's political calendar. The number of votes at stake is insignificant: a mere 10,000 to 15,000 Democrats are expected to turn out for town caucuses...