Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at who gains from 1-2-3. Fred Meyer, who calls himself the author of Prop 1-2-3, may certainly be motivated by a personal ideology linking freedom with owning a condo, but most other supporters ($56,000 strong, according to the 1988 State Campaign Finance Report) are motivated by profit. Not surprisingly, among the list of financial contributors who helped get this condo bill on the ballot are some of Cambridge's most notorious landlords...
According to professors who have read the report a week after its release, the proposals seem likely to generate little in the way of heated debate. But still, professors say, the proposed changes may encounter a fair amount of resistance from those faculty members who say they are against the bureaucracy...
...question is really what can be done about it--and on that I think the report is basically whistling in the dark," says Houthakker. "I'm not sure a great deal can be done about it without letting time take its course...
Regardless of their positions on the report and its specific recommendations, professors say the faculty is not likely to line up in opposition...
...statistician's play-by-play report may have come the closest to capturing the incredible nature of the string...