Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highly confrontational meeting last night, the City Council once again postponed action on a home rule petition designed to strengthen the enforcement of rent control in Cambridge...
...petition, if passed by both the council and the state Legislature, would reinstate a provision of the city's rent control ordinance struck down by the Supreme Judicial Court last month...
Around Prague's Wenceslas Square, the site of huge pro-democracy protests the last three weeks, thousands of Christmas shoppers and workers on lunch break joined in the three-minute demonstration of support, ringing tiny bells or shaking sets of keys...
...Sunday, in his last act as president, Gustav Husak swore in a Cabinet whose members include people he had jailed or stripped of all but the most menial jobs. The new Cabinet gave the country its first government dominated by non-Communists since...
...After last night's meeting, Sullivan said he planned to reintroduce the petition again at the council meeting next Monday. Unless a special council session is called, that meeting will be the last chance to send the measure to the state Legislature this year...