Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danehy, who has held the city's top spot since his narrow election by fellow councilors in 1977, has moderated his once hard-line stand on rent control, and now supports a policy of vacancy decontrol--letting landlords raise rents after tenants have moved...
Seven years ago, Sullivan fought hard to get students the right to vote in Cambridge. Last year, he drafted the bill passed by the current city council that has slowed the pace of rapid conversion. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Law School, Sullivan works as an attorney for the secretary of state. A loser by only eight votes in his first council bid a year ago, he has won the endorsement of both the Cambridge Civic Association and the Rent Control Task Force...
Every Cambridge election is hard to call, but this year the job is especially difficult. An influx of condominium owners (and a correspoinding shrinkage in the number of tenants) has changed the city's demographics, and anti-rent control candidates are pushing hard for the votes of condo owners. Meanwhile, Cambridge's residents, most of them Democrats, are becoming increasingly wary of big-spending city government, and they demand to know why stratospheric tax rates haven't dropped because of new state...
...Graham, who also holds influence because of her state representative position, to the council. This year, black challenger Alvin Thompson is mounting a strong opposition drive--it's unlikely that he will beat Graham and doubtful that he can win on his own, but nevertheless Graham has been working hard to make sure she retains her seat...
...they tend toward individual stardom--Walter Sullivan for example has a network of buddies and relatives built up since he broke into the major leagues more than two decades ago--he doesn't need the CHT card file to help his effort. It's a little hard to gauge the strength of the CHT campaign effort--the group as of Friday hadn't filed the campaign finance report due a week earlier. Group president Richard Fraiman says the final tally will be somewhere in the several thousands of dollars. And although Cambridge political folk wisdom conventionally holds that there...