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...whatever they knew or didn't know, Harvard students turned out to vote in numbers 50 per cent higher that ever before...
...followed closely the CCA and Rent Control Task Force slates. Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...
...That's more than double the annual appropriation for defense spending.) Instead, the oil companies may well choose to buy up other energy producers, giving them even greater control of our energy future, while doing almost nothing to help increase energy production. Eleven oil companies already own 25 per cent of the coal industry, according to a September 1979 issue of Business Week, and are beginning to buy up the best small solar firms, jeopardizing the future of competition in the energy field...
...undergraduates surveyed, slightly more than 80 per cent opposed any form of military action and nearly 69 per cent agreed with Carter's actions since the Iranian students captured the embassy in Tehran and took 60 hostages a week...
...number of meals served in a week dropped from 90,000 to tewer than 82,300 an 8.6 per cent decrease in meals that cost the University about $1 a piece. Walcott said. "It seems to indicate people were getting free meals before," he added...