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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These results are unofficial. Candidates areelected to the nine-member council once they reachthe quota, which election officials estimated at2698 votes. In Cambridge's complicated system ofproportional representation, votes are transferredto lower-choice candidates after the first choicesmeet the quota or are dropped from the count forhaving gotten the fewest votes...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Wolf Tops City Council Voting | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

This season, Dermody has allowed only 15 league goals in five games. If Dartmouth scores fewer than three goals today, Harvard will break another Ivy record--for fewest goals allowed in a season, set by Penn...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A History That Should Take Another Course | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...police were completely horrible. They played their role to the hilt and they beat up everybody. It was a textbook case of police brutality," says Weiner. "Their strategy was to send in the cops when there would be the fewest witnesses...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: From Cambridge to Berkeley---'A Wild Year' Nationwide | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Until recently, it was widely believed that older drivers were the safest because they are involved in the fewest accidents overall of any age group. But those statistics do not weigh the fact that senior citizens tend to drive fewer miles than their younger counterparts. A 1988 study by the Transportation Research Board and the National Research Council discovered that elderly drivers rank second only to 16-to-24-year-olds in the number of accidents per mile driven. Similarly, the Insurance Information Institute reports that drivers 75 and over are more accident-prone than all but those under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Driver Be Too Old? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...Football League. The result: 15 of 22 starters are top-round draft picks. Building around veteran All-Pro nose tackle, 285-lb. Fred Smerlas, Buffalo has structured the A.F.C.'s best defense. They have held opponents to just one touchdown in the past four games and have allowed the fewest total yards in the conference. No wonder they boast nicknames such as the "Bruise Brothers" and the "Billsdozers." Over the past three years, Buffalo acquired '87 Pro Bowl defensive end Bruce Smith, inside linebacker Shane Conlan of Penn State and second-year outside linebacker Cornelius Bennett, a guided missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Let's Get Ridiculous! Buffalo's Bills | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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