Word: nine
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...number one votes, and if any candidate makes the quota, he is immediately elected (something only Walter J. Sullivan can do). His surplus votes go to whoever the voter marked number two. Candidates on the bottom of the totals are eliminated, and the women keep redistributing the ballots until nine council and six school committee candidates make quota...
There were 197 conversions out of the city's 36,000 housing units in the first nine months of 1977, but the city's threat to rent control by conversion is seen much more as a potential than as a current phenomenon. Harlow Properties plans to convert all 500 of its housing units and has only been prevented by a marketing study that urged a delay in order to prevent a glut. Unchecked, the conversions will whittle away at the supply of available low and middle income housing. The elderly in Cambridge are especially vulnerable, as most live on fixed...
...Danehy, ousted him in June 1970 over many objections. Cambridge residents crowded into the council chambers to protest the move at a hearing required by the city charter, and former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 joined with the then-president of MIT to send a telegram to the nine councilors stating, "Now, as never before, we need stability and continuity in the administrative branch of the city government." (Spring 1970 was the season of the U.S. invasion of Cambodia--the season that a Crimson headline read, "Rioting devastates Harvard Square; Windows smashed, scores injured...
...must be carried in U.S. ships was scuttled. Congress bowed to all-out oil industry lobbying and killed a plan to emphasize environmental considerations in offshore oil leases. Carter wanted to shelve 23 major water projects dear to the lawmakers' local interests, but he had to settle for killing nine and curtailing four?still a sharp break from the tradition of unstoppable pork barrel construction...
...only the first week of all the weeks to come for the next five years; the nine pages outlining the conditions of Woods' banning until October 1982 still sit on his study desk beside his children's report cards. The beginnings, at least, are outwardly pleasant, like an unexpected family vacation. Eventually there will be financial problems. The Daily Dispatch will continue...