Word: favor
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...city's system of proportional representation--often jokingly referred to as "perpetual representation"--tends to heavily favor incumbents, and there have not been three vacancies in a council for at least 20 years...
Rena Leib says she wants to preserve the liberal tradition of the council, adding she will seek backing from the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). While Leib says she opposed Proposition 1-2-3, she says she might favor restricting rent control to people below a certain income...
...other side of the aisle, candidates are trying to gain a fifth seat for the independents. School Committee members Alfred B. Fantini and Timothy Toomey are both running, as is businessman Alan Bell. Generally, independents on the council vote as a bloc and favor tightening rent control restrictions...
Although there are many issues derivative of a successfully passed Proposition 1-2-3 that need to be resolved, I am, on balance, in favor of 1-2-3 because it symbolizes potential empowerment through home ownership equity, the inspiration of selfesteem and enrichment of the cultural and socio-economic fabric of our city," says Bell...
...cannibalized by family and friends; the paleontologist of Life Before Man views the people around her as potential fossils; in The Handmaid's Tale, a future America goes to hell when it is taken over by religious fundamentalists. But in Cat's Eye, Atwood jettisons her old techniques in favor of recognizable landscapes and more plausible griefs...