Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PR system lets people stay in office perpetually," said Budryk...
...Cambridge politics, "Plan E" government and Hare Proportional Representation. Under Plan E, a professional, non-elected city manager handles the day-to-day workings of government under the supervision of the elected officials. The mayor holds a largely ceremonial position and is elected from among the city councilors. PR voting, an at-large balloting system where candidates are ranked by voters, is designed to give minority views a chance to elect their own representatives. The CCA was dedicated to electing a slate of reformist city councilors...
City officials in Cambridge are elected according to the Hare system of proportional representation (PR). Cambridge citizens vote for as many of the 22 candidates as they want, assigning a 1 vote to their first choice candidate, 2 to their second choice, and on down the line...
...elected in the PR system, you have to have a geographical base and some city-wide appeal," said Clifford E. Truesdell, vice-chairman of the Democratic City Committee...
Some would claim the fad was sparked by last year's rash of farm films: Jessica Lange's Country, Sissy Spacek's The River and Sally Field's Places in the Heart, to name the most nauseating. But I disagree. America doesn't need PR--wary actresses to put the grit in gritgeist and make it a salable item. Instead, last week's FarmAID effort did just that...