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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such results are commonplace in Cambridge, which uses a system of proportional representation (PR) that virtually assures re-election for incumbents. In fact, many city residents joke about the real meaning of PR--perpetual representation, they dub...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Such results are commonplace in Cambridge, which uses a system of proportional representation PR) that virtually assures re-election for incumbents. In fact, many city residents joke about the real meaning of PR--perpetual representation, they dub...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Such results are commonplace in Cambridge, which uses a system of proportional representation (PR) that virtually assures re-election for incumbents. In fact, many city residents joke about the real meaning of PR--perpetual representation, they dub...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...Peng and President Yang Shangkun reportedly informed Deng that the movement had spread "to high schools, the countryside and even among the workers." Deng, whose sole official government title is Chairman of the Central Military Commission but whose ironhanded control of the government has led the students to dub him the "Emperor," agreed that the protesters intended to overthrow the Communist Party. Referring to the turmoil that has accompanied political reform elsewhere in the socialist world, Deng said, "Look what happened in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union." He called the demonstrators "a black hand against the party and myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Beijing Spring | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss Fortune, buffeted by wind and water. As a "Foley artist" in the Monster Sound Show, you desperately improvise sound effects to accompany a comedy thriller, then dub your voice to match the moving lips of Clark Gable or Jean Harlow -- and listen in giddy horror to the results. Sit in a formica booth at the Prime Time Cafe, a gorgeous riot of '50s kitsch, and waitresses dressed like early TV moms dote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: You're Under Arrest! | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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