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To overcome that potential problem, we advocate a system of proportional representation voting similar to the one use in Cambridge municipal elections. The proportional representation scheme weights votes, allowing--should most of them choose to support a single candidate with a number one vote--members of most minority groups to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Man, One Vote | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

Talman employees have a reason to be nice. They would be in deep trouble without the fierce loyalty of such customers to their old-fashioned passbooks. In American banks and in savings and loan institutions, an incredible total of more than $341 billion is sitting in accounts that pay a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in That 5.5% Rut | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

The show's only professional actor is Doug Llewelyn, 42, a onetime Washington, D.C., news anchorman and a former pitchman for Sears. He does the introductions, occasionally polls the studio audience for its reaction, and conducts post-trial interviews in a mock-marble hallway. Aside from such embellishments, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Oyez! Don't Touch That Dial | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

To cope, some institutions have had to import nurses from the Philippines, the United Kingdom and Canada. By next year, 20% of the 5,600 nurses in New York's municipal hospitals will be Filipino. And still the city will be short 1,000 nurses. Many more use temporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Florence Nightingale Wants You! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Schaefer's weapons have been gall, soft soap, hard nose, demonic energy and the kind of showmanship Baltimore had not seen since the death of vaudeville. During a crippling 1974 strike by municipal workers, Hizzoner was out there pitching garbage on a sanitation truck. When the new National Aquarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Wedded to His Home Town | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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