Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although final results will not be available for more than a week, the high turnout should tend to favor liberal council candidates and work against 1-2-3, according to Noah M. Berger '89, the executive director of the Cambridge Civic Association...
However, the high turnout may also favor theindependents. With 1-2-3 on the ballot this fall,small property owners and other real estateinterests have staged a highly vocal campaignwhich may result in broad support from across thecity...
...addition, both Duehay and Wolf have been strong advocates of responsible development in recent years. They have consistently voted in favor of limiting new construction where it would intrude upon neighborhoods. Key initiatives they have supported include downzoning of the Gulf Station site on Mass Ave. and the Yanow petition to set back all new construction at a 45 degree angle from residential neighborhoods...
There is nothing magical or unique about capital gains. A special break for this particular form of investment profit distorts the free market in two ways. First, it prejudices the economy in favor of certain kinds of investment. Those who say we need to encourage entrepreneurs or long-term investors with this break (which actually would reserve few of its benefits for those charmed circles) are saying the Government can outguess the market about which investments will pay off. If a risky or long-term investment makes more sense than keeping money in a savings account, the market will reward...
...Representative Wayne Owens, a Utah Democrat, has 76 cosponsors for a bill calling for wolf reintroduction, but its chances are dodgy unless lawmakers from the Yellowstone states change their minds. This may happen; polls show that voters favor the idea. Wyoming Republican Senator Alan Simpson, once an antiwolf diehard, talked like a moderate at a recent hearing on Owens' bill and says only, "Let's take care of grizzlies first." He means get the bears off the endangered species list and out from under federal protection, so they can be shot beyond park boundaries...