Word: elected
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Ultimately, however, the problem is not one of overcrowding, but of underplanning. The perennial explanation for overcrowding in the houses is that University officials had no way of predicting the numbers of students that would elect to take or to return from leaves of absence. More housing will not resolve this uncertainty, though an adequate buffer of extra rooms will help...
Reagan recognized that prospect in his Baltimore speech last week, appealing to voters not to elect "liberals" who would "chop up" SDI and thus, in effect, hand Gorbachev, free of charge, what he could not buy at a very high price in Reykjavik. Speakes later conceded that the speech had been "too shrill." Yet those in Congress who believe SDI should be a bargaining chip do face a dilemma: if they cut back funding for the program, which has so far been valuable in wangling serious concessions from the Soviets, it loses its value as a bargaining chip...
Tenants who attended the meeting adopted bylaws that take effect in February. The group will elect officers then, and the founders will run the organization unofficially for the intervening three months...
Under my proposal (see below), landlords could continue operating under the present system or could elect to subject their property to a new law. Added tax revenue from decontrolled units and fees paid by landlords under this section would be used to form a fund that would subsidize rents for tenants and mortgage interest for limited equity homeonwers...
...owner of one or more units in any one building may elect to subject his property to this section. An owner so desiring shall file a notice with the Board. The Board shall then inform all tenants of that owner living at the property of the landlord's intention to decontrol the property...