Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government from the inside. His conclusion--after serving successively as Minister of Housing, Lord President of the Council, Majority Leader in the House of Commons and Secretary of State for Social Services--was that the Cabinet had little effective power and that Britain had drifted into a "Prime Ministerial" form of government. Crossman presented these views in his 1970 Godkin lectures at Harvard, which he later claimed had been entirely ignored by the press, with the exception of "The Harvard Crimson, which gave a couple of paragraphs to the third lecture...
...problem, Crane thinks, may be in the form of government. "Under Proportional Representation, incumbents become more aware of their number one supporters. As long as they can keep them happy, they an afford to be independent of their colleagues," he says. Thus you get a Saundra Graham accountable only to her Riverside-Cambridgeport constituency and a David Wylie, responsible for the views of West Cambridge rather than all of the city...
What people should fear from the re-election of an independent-dominated council, liberals contend, is, for one thing, the discontinuation of rent control in its current form. Liberals have previously mustered five votes in favor of rent control only because of Vellucci's defection from the Independent side. Recently, however, Vellucci has proposed a measure called "vacancy decontrol," which would allow landlords to raise rents once an apartment becomes vacant...
...court decisions barring residency requirements for voters and a new registration law have put this piece of political wisdom to a test. Under the new law, students may register to vote here simply by filling out a form. But despite bullhorns, leaflets, and sign-up tables all over the place, the results--like the prospects of a student take-over--have been disappointing, and certainly nothing for Cambridge power brokers to lose sleep over...
...politics of students has become more mainstream, the likelihood that they will form their own political organization has declined. And after all, when students here have the choice between getting a job with a candidate bound for the presidency or trying to get someone elected to the city council, there's very little doubt about which way they will turn...