Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want make sure that the people in your area get their share of city services and milk ethnic and neighborhood sentiment for all the votes they're worth. That's the way it's been in the City-at least since 1941, when Cambridge adopted the Proportional Representation (PR) system, which places a premium on getting a solid-not necessarily large-group of voters to back a candidate year in and year...
Over the years, this system has shown an amazing durability, if not too much dynamism. Nine councilors get elected-almost always four from the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and five "independents." Together they apportion the City's bounty to their respective constituents try to keep the tax rate as low as possible, and sometimes, as from 1965 to 1968, break up in bitter fights over the choice of a city manager...
Whether the rent control advocates play the rules of the PR system will determine in large measure how much impact they have on the election results. If they cast "bullets" (voting only for a first choice candidates, without listing other choices), their impact will end once their first choice candidates are eliminated as most probably will...
...project which the NAC is demanding be shut down are the Cambridge Project, the Com-Com Project, and the International Communism Project, at the CIS; research on MIRV and on a stabilization system for helicopters, at the Instrumentation Labs; and work on the ABM and the Moving Target Indicator radar system, at the Lincoln...
...Tufts Board of Trustees is meeting today to consider proposals that would change the governing system of the university...