Word: chambers
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California Democrat Willie Brown did it again. Having only recently outmaneuvered a Republican majority to remain the state assembly speaker, Brown outflanked the G.O.P. one last time before stepping down from the post he has held for 15 years. Capitalizing on the parties' even split of the current chamber, Brown recruited a dissident Republican, Doris Allen, to take over his job, put her over the top with the votes of all Democrats and then got himself appointed "speaker emeritus" -- a position that will allow him to "assist" the new speaker while he focuses on running for mayor of San Francisco...
Other business interests appear to agree."There is a real fine line between freedom ofspeech and regulation of what is considered freespeech," said Helena G. Rees, public affairsdirector of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce...
...final compromise was a revised version of a plan proposed by the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce in April...
...Chamber is just delighted," said Helena G.Rees, the Chamber of Commerce's public affairsdirector. "You're seeing both the needs ofnon-smokers met by going from the current 25percent to 50 percent as well as allowing thosewho do smoke to have choice as well...
...That's the risk the Cambridge Chamber ofCommerce runs by proposing such a weak ordinance,that people are going to be [dissatisfied] withit," Gottlieb said...