Word: often
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This city has often gone with developers at the expense of neighborhoods," says Myers. "I am running very much on a preservation, a proneighborhood platform...
...city's system of proportional representation--often jokingly referred to as "perpetual representation"--tends to heavily favor incumbents, and there have not been three vacancies in a council for at least 20 years...
...used to trouble me that people thought our sole purpose for being in business was to make fun of people. Unfortunately, there is no joke that does not make fun of somebody. I try to make it, as often as not, me or the show or somebody in our little group. So if we do say something that looks like we're making fun of somebody else, it's in the spirit of everything. But some people don't buy that. I know that some people can't stand me, and it troubles me because I think we're just...
...Instead of being presented with the name of a single party-approved candidate, voters will pick from a slate of several nominees. Moreover, the elections will be conducted by secret ballot. But because of the complex, overlapping rules, the route from nomination to election is difficult to understand and often seems open to manipulation. The new law makes nominating candidates so confusing that some sessions have degenerated into brawls as factions accused one another of exploiting the fuzzy regulations to rig the outcome...
...guns with cash, get into a car with New York license plates, and they are gone." Some gunrunners prefer to hire one or more "straw buyers," local Southerners paid as little as $100 for the use of their legitimate IDs to make the purchases. Through such means, gun smugglers often buy a dozen weapons or more at a time. Though gun dealers in some states are required to report multiple purchases, federal agents say sellers do not always cooperate...