Word: part
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Given these effects, it's no surprise that PR has generally been backed by political reformers and opposed by "organization" politicians in the United States. Though some 25 U. S. cities adopted the system during the earlier part of the century, Cambridge is now the only one to retain it for municipal elections. Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Chicago use PR for elections to their faculty senates...
...terms of Harvard's charter, which is part of the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Corporation fills its own vacancies, although the Board of Overseers must approve each selection...
...mere fact that we had the decision out a week before they did was no act of brilliance on our part," Hurlbut said. The furor over cyclamates "was coming to a head" at that time, and "if sugar-based drinks were available, why not use them?" he said...
...this is about encyclopedias, you might as well not waste your time," he said. "I sell Britannica part time...
Though people in underdeveloped countries are suffering more than we could ever imagine, they are oppressed by only a very small part of the capitalist system. They do not, for example, have a hundred years of capitalism's atomization process to fight. Once the U.S. is defeated, people in those countries are close enough to each other to organize a society around common goals...