Word: means
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Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, it is important to vote for several candidates. In the late stages of the vote count, third, fourth and lower-choice votes can mean the difference between victory and defeat for a candidate. We strongly urge you to vote for all of these candidates...
...proposal will adversely affect low-income tenants in another way as well. A reduction in the supply of rent control apartments will force more people to the market of non-rent controlled apartments. More demand there will mean higher rents across the city. No wonder the Cambridge Tenants' Union opposes...
...flaw with this proposal is that it is entirely unenforceable. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue ruled this summer that the Cambridge City Council would have to grant approval for an affordable housing fund each year as part of the normal funding process. New times and new politicians could easily mean no new affordable housing...
...memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with a Brancusi somewhere along...
That does not mean that any of the remaining hard-line governments will necessarily be toppled anytime soon. Nor do they show signs of making more than minor changes in their orthodox programs. And there seems to be a flip side to Gorbachev's repudiation of the Brezhnev Doctrine: it also means that Moscow will not intervene to force reform. Intriguingly, though, some Soviet officials are debating whether it might be wiser to give a shove to the recalcitrant leadership in Czechoslovakia, where popular pressure for change seems ripest...