Word: supported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory, PR is designed to make sure the fringe gets a voice in situations where traditional voting methods split two parties along a few mainstream issues. In Cambridge, candidates only need to receive support from one-ninth of the electorate, rather than a majority...
...right, a coalition of Independent council hopefuls have joined with Councillor William H. Walsh to form the "Today's Independents" slate. The slate's members are unified by their support of Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would drastically alter rent control...
...slate's formation also splits the Independents into at least two other groups: old-line Independents like Councillors Walter J. Sullivan and Thomas W. Danehy, who base their support on neighborhoods, and protenant candidates like Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., who support rent control and oppose...
...Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year's end, to recommend the return of wolves, but political maneuvering has blocked the drafting of the necessary environmental-impact statement. The major national environmental groups support wolf reintroduction, and one, the Defenders of Wildlife, is raising $100,000 to reimburse stockmen in the northern Rockies for livestock the wolves might kill. Last month Defenders agreed to pay $1,700 to cattlemen for kills by a wolf pack that had migrated from Canada into Montana...
...Montana's Glacier National Park, they will be protected as an indigenous endangered species. Instead, McClure's plan would de-list wolves immediately, and let state game laws treat them as predators, outside designated havens in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and in Glacier and Yellowstone parks. Environmental groups support the park strategy, which would de-list wolves only after ten breeding pairs are established in Yellowstone and Glacier parks and the Idaho wilderness...