Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consumer is paying a record $1.33 a Ib. for round steak and 48? a lb. for tomatoes. Admittedly, he is more able than before to foot the bill. After declining for some time, the average U.S. worker's real purchasing power has begun to climb because most wage increases are now exceeding rises in the cost of living. Personal income, as reported by the Commerce Department last week, has risen by 9% this year over the first half of last year...
...seems unlikely that the council will pass the ordinance at that time, since they have twice refused a request from the Cambridge Housing Convention to pass a similar rent control bill...
...rent control bill does get onto the November ballot, it must then leap two hurdles in order to become law: a simple majority of those voting on the bill must vote in favor of it, and one-third of all registered voters in Cambridge must vote for the bill...
...likely to have around 42,000 registered voters. In the City Council elections two years ago, about 31,000 voters turned out. Thus, if the turnout is the same this time, and all voters in the council election also vote either "yes" or "no" on the rent control bill, the required simple majority of those voting would be about 15,500, which would also be more than one-third of all the registered voters in the City
...middle ground for those pushing for rent control. A poster pictured the hands of nine city councillors: the hands of the four councillors who voted for the housing convention's rent control ordinance are clean; those of the five opposed are splattered with blood. As housing convention vice-chairman Bill Joyce saw it, the four backed "the little people of Cambridge," while the five voted for "rent gougers, speculators, banks and Harvard and M.I.T...