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Under Cambridge's complex proportional representation system, voters rank candidates in order of preference. If a voter's first-choice candidate is eliminated or collects a surplus of votes, the second-choice vote counts...
...votes, both from tenants and students, followed closely the CCA and Rent Control Task Force slates. Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...
...Irving Trust Company, has said, "Projected world oil shortages are analogous to a 'receding horizon'--no matter how rapidly you move toward the horizon, it is still the same distance away." Certainly the world oil supply cannot last forever. But our current problems stem from a lack of surplus capacity that makes us vulnerable to the slightest production cutback by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The oil companies have no incentive to develop enough oil outside OPEC to ease the threat of shortage. As long as demand doesn't change, they profit the most by cooperating with OPEC...
...Wolf's surplus ballots those over the quota of approximately 2500 needed to insure election) will be redistributed to each voter's second choice candidate...
...build plants abroad, businesses evaded the controls by borrowing in the Eurodollar market. The amount of Eurodollars available for borrowing sharply increased after the 1973-74 jump in oil prices. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, unable to spend their petroprofits fast enough, began parking many surplus dollars in banks outside the U.S. Cartel members now have $74 billion in these Eurodollar deposits. Bankers also started lending large amounts of Euromarks and Euro-francs, which are West German marks and Swiss francs deposited outside their home countries...