Word: thompson
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...Cape land bank proposal is similar in structure to two other proposals that may affect Cambridge--the Community Preservation Act, sponsored by State Sen. Robert A. Durand (D-Marlboro) and the Cambridge Transfer Tax Bill, sponsored by State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge...
...Cambridge transfer tax, according to Thompson's office, would ask for a fee of one percent on sales in excess of $300,000. This fee would be paid to the City of Cambridge and allocated to the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust Fund...
...Thompson says this bill is necessary to make certain that people of diverse economic backgrounds can live in the city...
...Thompson is currently trying to get the bill to the legislative floor...
...Madeleine Albright, touring the Gulf Monday and stopping off in Riyadh, conspicuously sidestepped the issue of using Saudi bases. "If we had gotten a yes," fretted one anonymous administration official, "she would have said so." TIME's man at the Pentagon, Mark Thompson, thinks it's only a matter of time ? and pressure. "We saved Saudi Arabia from potential invasion during the Gulf War," says Thompson. "They owe us a lot of money. If we want to use those bases, we will get them...