Word: lawing
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Donald A. Drisdell, deputy city solicitor, said last night that the law initially applied only to a part of Cambridge. In exchange for voluntarily placing the whole city under the regulation, the act was amended to allow Cambridge to add one commercial parking space for every two spaces that it eliminated on the street...
...When the law went into effect in 1975, Cambridge had a total of 3500 commercial parking spaces, but the city was allowed to add an additional 10 percent because it eliminated some on-street parking, McManus said. Now, however, the city has approximately 13,000 spaces, well in excess of the allowable limit, she added...
...city argues that the before the 1975 act went into effect, state and federal governments were conducting negotiations that gave Cambridge an exemption from the law's provisions...
...time, administrators said they might use the site to build a dormitory for Law School students. But Harvard also purchased the nearby Quality Inn at 1651 Mass...
...patriotic uprising when he issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season. F.D.R.'s Thanksgiving formula was later codified into federal law, but not before Ogden Nash composed the following couplet...