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Experts had predicted the finish from the first count, but the final results were delayed by Cambridge's antiquated system of proportional representation. Under this system, voters rank candidates in order of preference, and candidates are elected when they reach a quota or percentage of all votes. Their surplus votes and the votes of eliminated candidates are redistributed to the next person listed on each ballot...
...Energy, is positively thrifty. Or so insists Allen Wallace, property disposal supervisor for the Zia Co., the contractor that serves, to use local parlance, as the interface between the lab and the outside world. Says Wallace: "It is important to understand this is the last step." Before this, usable surplus has been offered to other Government agencies through excess-property catalogues, and then to state and local agencies. Finally, it goes to the yard...
Workers will complete the certification today, then begin transferring the surplus of those four contenders to other candidates in Cambridge's complicated system of proportional representation. Others will begin the first count in the school committee race...
Along with declining enrollments, the number of students admitted to medical schools this fall will also fall for the second consecutive year. Citing reductions in government funding and a federal study released early this year which predicted an impending surplus of doctors, seven medical schools have decided to decrease their enrollment by at least five students...
Wealthier students can ride this tide with the upwardly mobile; others may find it harder to keep apace as the Square begins to flirt in earnest with chi-chi consumerism. I hear there's still an army surplus store at Central Square where, coincidentally, you can also find the proletariat fast food Cambridge opposes. At least at McDonald's two dollars can buy you dinner, not just a sugar rush...