Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although all the votes have been cast inCambridge's fall 1989 election, the contest isstill far from over. Because Cambridge uses anarcane system of proportional representation forCity Council and School Committee elections,election officials count all ballots by hand--aprocess which can take as long as a week...
Young, on the other hand, could depend on thesolid support of a city that is predominantlyBlack--a factor that has long been the predominantcharacteristic of most successful campaigns byBlacks...
Republican candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and other key offices are optimistic that the new decade could end an era in which their party has played a small role. Democrats, on the other hand, are fighting to save their reputations--tarnished by the state's fiscal crisis--and preserve a 20-year rule on Beacon Hill...
...other hand, many Cambridge residents saythe week-long vote count is one of the things theylike best about...
...European house" mean political as well as economic integration with the West? Will the Warsaw Pact remain intact? Will the two Germanys reunify? "Before you start taking an old structure down," says Karel Doudera, a Czech expert on German affairs, "it is not a bad idea to have in hand the materials for the new one. But in this case...