Word: civic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci voting with the four liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) councilors, the council passed an amendment to the original condo conversion ordinance clarifying which rental units can be removed from the market without a special permit granted by the rent board...
...privacy of voting booths, where Cambridge voters will today be alone with their wallets, pocketbooks, and civic on science, the fate of hundreds of municipal employees and millions of dollars in services will be decided...
Small businessmen are not alone in scrambling to make a buck. The fair's organizers are big businessmen who conceived it as a profit-making venture as well as a civic-spirited showcase. The fair and adjacent real estate developments were financed by an intricate combination of private money and, to a much larger extent, public funds. Nearly all the deals have a common connection: Jake Butcher, 46, a Knoxville banking magnate and twice a candidate for Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entr...
...landlords decided last year to make a test case" of the Linnaean St. residents," Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) Councilor David Wylie said last night. He added that the ordinance approved by the council last night could potentially prove "very destructive" to the city's overall condo conversion ban be cause the exemption has the effect of "treating similar cases dissimilarly...
...President summoned leaders of 100 business and civic groups to the White House for a meeting at which Armco Chairman C. William Verity Jr., head of Reagan's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives, set a goal of persuading corporations and individuals to increase greatly their charitable contributions during the next four years. That was another attempt to portray Reagan as a man of compassion, but one who believes the poor should be helped as much as possible by voluntary charity rather than Government benefits. At week's end the President hosted a White House lunch...