Word: council
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Instituting a system of proportional representation similar to that of the Cambridge City Council elections. If additional nominations were made by petition, ballots would be mailed to student and or non-student members, as the case required. Each voter would place numbers in front of the candidates in order of preference...
...other student-faculty group created by the forum will deal with interdepartmental issues. In addition to students and faculty, it will include members of the administrative and technical staff. The School-wide group is to be called the General Council and elections for the six student and six faculty representatives will be held in the next two weeks. The Council will also include two alumni representatives who will have only one vote and the Dean, a non-voting member...
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Finally, concerned residents organized a 3,600-member Citizens League, which helped to devise a regional planning body that both cities and suburbs would trust. Two years ago, under the league's prodding, the state legislature passed an act setting up the Metropolitan Council to provide for "the orderly physical, social and economic growth of the area...
...taken out. Inventing ways to spend the wealth, in fact, has become a favored pastime. Alaskans have variously suggested building a bridge to Siberia, distributing the cash equally among the citizenry, and building a much-discussed new state capitol beside the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. More soberly, the Legislative Council has commissioned The Brookings Institution to recommend how best to invest the interest that the money will earn, and Governor Miller has asked the Stanford Research Institute to undertake a similar study. Beyond that, Alaska has another 800,000 acres to put up for bids whenever it wishes, and will...