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Actually, nominating petitions are not even available until later this month, and they are not due back at the city's election commission until August. But politicking in Cambridge starts early and spreads far. In every biannual election, all nine city council seats are up for grabs. And this November 2 is made even more crucial by the fact that political control now rests in delicate balance between the progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents. Each bloc holds four seats, with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--the self-proclaimed "small i" independent and champion...
...presided over an administrative board meeting of the University's Oaks research institute. Association staff members spent two days briefing the presidents on educational issues that have been or will be on the executive of legislative agendas. Bok said Sunday that one of the primary subjects of the private biannual conference meetings was hospital cost containment which would affect Harvard's 13 affiliated medical institutions. Margaret Heckler, Secretary of the Department of Health...
Anderson, during his 60-minute remarks, a stressed the need for restructuring the budget process. In place of an annual budget, he said. Congress should make a biannual statement that would. "In a more rational fashion, put down some of the specifics of what our resources are and what our goals...
...spending in every area, and raising income and cigarette taxes. Michigan is only one month into an austere fiscal 1983 budget of $4.6 billion, and already it looks as if the state will come up short by $100 million. In Ohio, where joblessness is running at 12.5%, the current biannual budget of $13 billion was only three months old when officials realized that they might face a $1 billion shortfall. "We kept looking at it to make sure we were not mistaken," said Budget Official Edgar Troyer. "You can't imagine how tense it was." To cope with...
...announcement came, fittingly enough, from Brezhnev himself, who after 16 years at the helm has proved to be the most durable Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Addressing 1,500 delegates to the biannual session of the Supreme Soviet in the Kremlin, Brezhnev announced that Kosygin, 76, was stepping down "on the grounds of his health, which has recently worsened." To replace him as Prime Minister, Brezhnev formally nominated Kosygin's longtime deputy, Nikolai Tikhonov, 75. The parliament's approval, with a unanimous show of hands, came automatically. Kosygin and former President Anastas Mikoyan are the only top Kremlin...