Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern democracy is something like a jet plane. It will do what it's meant to, but you have to have a certain amount of training to know what buttons to press and what levers to pull. In other words, you gotta be a PR man to fight City Hall...
...half to write every three minutes of a good sermon," says the Rev. Bertram Apman, pastor of the small Holy Cross Lutheran Church in the Seattle suburb of Newport. Overworked at his job of counseling, fundraising, youth work and admin stration, he has little time left to pr pare his preaching, which is why "some of my sermons have been so crummy." Apman feels that most small-town ministers share his problem, and that the solution is to merge weak little churches into a few big ones, regardless of the cost in denominationalism...
Thus far, the use of PR has meant there is no dominant force on either the school committee or the council. The independents hold a 5-4 majority on the council, and because Mayor Edward A. Crane sits on the school committee, CCA-endorsed candidates hold a 4-3 majority...
...PR has provided Cambridge with honest, though often-times sluggish government. Because there is no dominant political power, showdown issues are often sidestepped. Only when some sort of full or partial consensus has been reached is progress made, and this is admittedly a slow process. By the same token, it guards against excesses and protects the interest of many of the city's minorities--ethnic groups as well as the city's biggest minority, the "university-oriented" community. In a city as diversified as Cambridge, there is a lot to be said for having the broad representation that PR provides...
Those who attack PR claim that plurality voting would make city-wide issues a real part of campaigning. In addition, they say that plurality voting would provide more decisive leadership because councillors would feel responsible to the whole city--not just to small segments. Issues, unfortunately, are not so easily developed in city elections. Look at New York...