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...number of registered voters has increased from 45,000 at the beginning of 1975 to the present 53,000. Sullivan said this 8000 voter increase actually represents a loss of 5000 voters, and a gain of 13,000 newly registered voters, who will be "overwhelmingly progressive...
Although the number of registered voters has increased by only 2000 since 1972. Sullivan said, the gain is very significant because the Cambridge population has dropped in the same period. Cambridge is the only city in Massachusetts to show any increase in registered voters, Sullivan added...
...first down, the hard-hitting Oberg sliced through the line for a two-yard gain, and the ball lay inside the one-yard line. The clock ticked down to :27, as Oberg got the ball again and bucked into the line...
Ford's other financial problem concerned Special Prosecutor Ruffs investigation into contributions from two maritime unions, the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the Seafarers International Union, both of which are among the highest political spenders in U.S. labor. They are anxious to win political support in order to gain special subsidies and other protection for American vessels that otherwise would be competed off the seas by lower-cost foreign shipping. Maritime unions contributed to Ford's congressional campaigns, but they turned against him after 1974 when he vetoed a potentially inflationary bill that would have required 20% of all imported...
Figuring in the days-off provision, the new contract could boost Ford's labor costs by 10% per year at most -and that much only in the unlikely instance that there is no productivity gain. A 10% jump would not be excessively steep, compared with other 1976 contract settlements. In a year that began with experts' predictions of relative calm on the labor front, several major strikes have ended with bonanzas for workers: the Teamsters won a flat 34% wage-and-benefits increase over three years, while the rubber workers got nearly 40%. The Ford strike-which...