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...told, Roti's kin are paid $351,000 a year by the city. His daughter Rosemary Marasso is a mayoral press aide; her husband Ronald was just promoted from city painter to maintenance manager at O'Hare International Airport, thus becoming the highest paid city worker in the clan ($34,000). Another daughter, Mary Ann, works for the city housing department, and she is married to a police department machinist. Roti's daughter-in-law works for the health department; her husband Bruno held a job with the police until last year, when he was convicted...
...often held in relatively austere surroundings, though he costs can be $700, or even higher, or a three-day session, not including lotel and air fare. Seminars now account for 15% to 20% of the income at the ten large hotels that encircle Chicago's giant O'Hare International Airport, 15 miles from the city's downtown. The lotels offer many of the amenities of their downtown competitors but without the inner-city traffic jams...
...PATCO," he declared. "We are still proud." A federal court in Washington agreed to hear the case this week and has granted PATCO a temporary delay of the ruling. But some of Poll's members are pessimistic. Robert Westra, a former controller at Chicago's O'Hare Airport who is now trying to support himself as a carpenter, pronounced the decision "incredible." He saw only "a 5% hope" that he will be able to return to work. That slim possibility is based on the faith that, as O'Hare Striker Andrew Price put it, "the system...
Members of the constitution committee have called assured seating the only way that minorities can be sure of being represented in what will largely prove a white-dominated council. The Hare proportional voting system, they have said, is not in itself enough to assure representation for these groups. But these statements rest on the assumption that most white students are somehow racist, or at least, that whites would not in large numbers support minority candidates. This is an assumption that many students, both whites and minorities, are not prepared to make...
...Hare system, used in Cambridge city elections and by the Faculty Council and Harvard Coop, permits voters to list choices in order of preference, and allows groups to give more electoral weight to a particular candidate or slate of candidates...