Word: term
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergence of the student vote. College students have been eligible to vote in the past three Cambridge elections, a privilege only a few have ever exercised. But students registering for classes this fall found they could also register to vote in Cambridge--even if they hadn't paid their term bills. Many went ahead and registered. After all, "students will sign anything. They just won't take the time to vote," as conservative councilor Walter Sullivan once pointed...
...vote, but his margin slipped--he only beat his liberal namesake David by 26 votes. Relying on his strong personal network, Walter Sullivan, an assistant clerk of courts whose father served as a councilor at the tail end of the Depression and who is entering his 13th term on the board, will keep his seat as long as he wants it--more than can be said for most of his independent mates...
...Massachusetts law originally prescribed death by hanging or pressing for anyone who "willfully blasphemes the holy name of God." Meserve said, but added the sentence was long ago modified to a jail term. The current maximum penalty is a $300 line and a one-year jail sentence...
...long-term solution seems as elusive as ever. The Thatcher government has proposed an all-party conference in Northern Ireland to consider new initiatives, but the principal Protestant group, the Official Unionist Party, and the predominantly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party have both rejected the proposal. British officials nevertheless hope to get the parties to the table...
...letters? "It is an old-fashioned term that irritates me," he says. "I didn't set out to be a man of letters. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, because of the travel. But I had no sense of news; I would miss it by divine instinct...