Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised at the lack of supervision over young teachers," Oppenheimer said, adding that although there is some videotaping of sections there is no formal training program for section leaders. The high turnover of teaching fellows is one reason for the absence of such a program, Dean K. Whitla, director of the Danforth Center, said yesterday...
...reason the A's never contacted him is probably because they have no full-time scouts and their orgainization is the laughing stock of professional baseball. Finley has sold every player from the great championship teams of 1972, 1973, and 1974, and is trying hard to sell the whole team. In the meantime, he runs them like a pretzel stand. And pays commensurate salaries...
...conversions may scare many tenants to the polls. Finally, the usually ephemeral student vote could help liberal candidacies this fall. CCA candidate David Sullivan, who has campaigned dorm-to-dorm this year in his second bid for a council seat, points to the increased number of Harvard registrants as reason to believe students might finally help choose city leaders. If all of the 1500 Harvard students registered to vote turn out (unlikely is too weak a word for this prospect), they would be able to singlehandedly elect one candidate, a fact that scares as many Cambridge politicians as it entices...
THESE ARE the memories Sullivan recounts, not with the detached hindsight of recent interviews, or with the purpose of a sportswriter trying to find the real reason why the Red Sox blew it this year, but with the eye of the media, and mostly, the eye of those who have followed the Red Sox, and come back for more...
...still be wondering why slates are important in the city, why many candidates feel it is helpful to ally with others of similar (or in the case of the CCC, somewhat similar) views. The reason is proportional representation, Cambridge's fruitcake balloting system. Because ballots can count for a voter's second or third choice candidate if his first preference wins big or is eliminated from the running, it pays to give voters a list of identifiable candidates. It has also served as a useful way for Cantabrigians to clearly define the issues facing the city--CCA candidates, for example...