Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know whether or not I would have passed up the Honda if I had won--yeah, I put my name in the box like everyone else--but my conscience breathed a sigh of relief when the slick PR man crooned, "Peter Grossman, of Ithaca. New York, come on down...
ENTERPRISE, THEN Challenger. This isn't the first time Art has beaten Life to the pages of Newsweek; remember The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island. And it won't be the last. In the years prior to this week's tragedy, NASA had been straining its PR muscles, turning a rocket-powered bronco ride into what had begun to seem like a drive in the country. There had been so many shuttle flights flashing across our skies and our screens; they had become the norm, not the extraordinary exception...
...personal contact with voters is the most important part of local elections, Wolf says, because the city's proportional representation (PR) election system forces candidates to base their campaigns largely on popular appeal and neighborhood support. In PR elections, voters rank all of the candidates in order of preference--one, two, three...
Since a candidate only needs 10 percent of the vote to win a seat, the PR system works best for a candidate like anti rent control advocate William J. Walsh, who is running on a protest issue and is backed in part by a specific constituency, Cambridge condo-owners...
...PR system makes for a moderately progressive, stable government," said Truesdell. "Violent alternation in the council isn't in anybody's interest...