Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Yanguas came to the United States nine years ago. Since then she has always wanted to open a European Coffee House. The basement of Father Feeney's old stamping ground proved to be just the right place for what she had in mind...
City Council: A body of nine men and women elected from the city at large without reference to wards or parties. It serves both as a legislature and as a board of directors. As a legislature, it passes laws and ordinances for the city, and appropriates taxes and other funds to pay for services; as a board of directors, it establishes policy for city administration...
...University's. It disdains the demagogue, the smearer, the emotionally tinged campaign. Physically, the CCA accomplishes its goal through a proportional representation system of voting, where voters select their candidates in order of preference. Through the complicated counting process the CCA finds its elan vital--representation on the nine-man City Council and the six-man School Committee...
...might wonder, are 31 candidates vying for nine City Council posts in an issueless campaign? This large group includes the perenial outs--usually old men from a small, ethnically-tight community within the city--and several new-comers...
...from Cambridge. Harvard has a particular interest in this issue, since a continued decline in the number of industries would leave the city government with very little valuable property on which to collect taxes. According to a recent study, 15 firms have left Cambridge in the past two years, nine of them going to Route 128. This meant a loss of some 1,750 to 3,800 employees now working in outlying districts. At this late date, though, it is quite doubtful that McLaughlin can raise many eyebrows or arouse much enthusiasm, despite the importance of this problem...