Word: size
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...question America's electoral politics, already dearly deserving scrutiny. Municipal elections in Cambridge operate on a system of proportional representation, which in its simplest conception dictates that representation in elected government should reflect not merely the majority will, but a portion of the vote in proportion to its size. Cambridge relies upon a particularly intricate system to achieve this end: candidates are ranked by voters and their preferences tallied in a number of successive counts. Those candidates who surpass a predetermined quota are elected, and the votes are redistributed appropriately for subsequent counts, until all nine city councilors have been...
...major goals this year, Knowles said, is to increase the size of the Faculty. Adding new professorships would help reduce the size of classes and the overall student-faculty ratio...
...Yale EEB department is scheduled to double in size over the next few years, and construction on a facility devoted to environmental and biodiversity studies is already underway, according to Donoghue...
...city its size, Cambridge is well-equipped, with eight engines and four trucks...
Susan Craig, spokesperson for the Children's Hospital, Boston, where Folkman conducts his research, says that endostatin has been successful in studies on mice, reducing cancerous tumors to nearly microscopic size with no observable side effects...