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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city of Cincinnati, Ohio scrapped the innovative voting system a few years later. As did the city of Worcester, Mass. In fact, since the 1940s, every American city that has adopted the highly-touted system for ensuring minority representation has repealed...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Frequently, the candidates wouldn't even talk to me. One resented the fact that I was doing too much, because it made her look like she was doing nothing. Zwirn hated me at first because of an old political fight he had with my father. As a result, nothing got done...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Fear and Loathing on Long Island | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...seem O.K. to your editorial board that rent-controlled apartments in fact don't go to the poor, but are distributed to whoever offers the most money for one via a Reward poster behind the Coop. The whole system cries out for reforms like mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prop 1-2-3 | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...fact, PR seems o work so well that electoralreformers seeking to give racial minorities a sayin government are also attracted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: System of Proportional Representation | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...fact, Zimmerman says political parties havegood reason to dislike PR because they depend onloyalty to a platform that a transferable systemis designed to eliminate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: System of Proportional Representation | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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