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...city has been disenfranchised over the last 30 years--that only districts with high voter turnout (white Irish and Italian precincts) are represented. Minority communities, like Roxbury and Mattapan, and isolated communities such as Charlestown, Allston-Brighton, and Roslindale have been excluded under the present system, they contend. But critics of the proposal, generally from South Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park and West Roxbury, have argued that they should not be punished for civic-minded voting habits...
...predictor of academic success, Slack and Porter argue that research has been consistently misinterpreted by ETS. The testers, on the other hand, charge their critics with intentionally using improper statistical methods in re-analyzing existing data. The bottom line is that ETS and the College Board contend that using the SAT "improves" prediction by 27 per cent over a system in which high school grades are used alone; Slack and Porter set the factor at "an insignificant 1 to 4 per cent...
Leary and the CTA contend that the CCA majority's re-interpretation has allowed the current school committee to bas the dismissal of teachers on criteria other than the two factors they consider significant--certification by state and seniority. The present school committee's policy takes into account, among other things, how long a teacher has been working in the system, what subject areas the state has certified him to teach, his racial or ethnic background, and how long he has been teaching in a particular subject area...
Supporters of the measure contend that the changes will actually stimulate investment in new plant and equipment by companies that otherwise might not be able to take advantage of the new act's liberalized depreciation and investment tax credit provisions. For example, the investment tax credit lets a company reduce its yearly income taxes by either 6% or 10% of that year's capital investment. Unfortunately, such provisions are helpful only to those companies that are already profitable and actually paying taxes. Since low-profit and no-profit firms cannot make use of the benefits, they can find...
...Dragons tournament? Nope, just James Mason, Olivia Hussey, Anthony Andrews and Lysette Anthony in period garb for the CBS-TV movie Ivanhoe, due to air in February. The Sir Walter Scott novel of religious prejudice inspired the 1952 MGM classic with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. Olivia must now contend with the memory of Liz's smoldering Rebecca, but she doesn't want to hear about Ol' Lavender Eyes. Huffs Hussey: "I don't follow in anyone's footsteps...