Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Ryder, director of human services at MCI-Billerica, says the average term for prisoners there is about 10 months, with 40 percent of the prisoners getting out in less than 90 days. Issued navy work pants and a light-blue mechanic's shirt, prisoners at Billerica spend 17 to 21 hours a day confined to a space large enough only for a bunk bed, toilet and sink...
...must outweigh his committment to a collective national decision to fight. Because a soldier carries out the killing and destruction of the national decision to go to war, if he is not convinced a war is justified it would be immoral for him to fight, even if a jail term is the result...
...mayor, who was sworn in and began his term immediately after the vote, is a member of the conservative Independent faction of the council. Sullivan became mayor for the third time in his career--50 years to the day after his late father, Michael, took the oath of office as the council's chairman...
Since Cambridge adopted rent control 15 years ago, a tenuous balance on the council has preserved the city-wide policy, which is expected to come under attack this term from first-time Councilor William H. Walsh...
Seven incumbents returned to office as city councilors: Thomas W. Danehy, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, David F. Sullivan Walter J. Sullivan, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Alice K. Wolf. Sheila T. Russell and William H. Walsh are first-term lawmakers...