Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The three-term councillor, who grew teary-eyed at the resolution, has championed protection against domestic violence and has served as a strong voice for the gay community in her three council terms.
Robert La Tremouille was the only speaker who spoke against the ordinance, arguing that one section should be amended. If passed as is, La Tremouille said, the ordinance would eliminate the current protection against new signs in residential East Harvard Square.
The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) recently discovered that four Harvard Square restaurants were dumping food waste, oil and grease into a storm drain that runs into the Charles River, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said yesterday.
Their owners love them - sport utility vehicles and light trucks now make up almost half of the vehicles on American roads. They also inspire a lot of animosity: They're big, they terrify sedan drivers and they pollute more than cars. But that last complaint is about to change. On...
While both Democratic presidential candidates support providing legal protection to same-sex partners, neither Gore nor Bradley will go so far as to approve of gay marriage. And throughout the country, Cloud says, the issue serves as "a stopping point for many middle-of-the-road Democrats." Americans' ambivalence over...