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...weak mayor system of government leaves a vacuum--someone has to run the city day to day. For the last 40 years, that person has been the city manager. Under Cambridge's "Plan E" charter, the manager hires and fires--the city council can only appropriate and recommend. But the councilors can fire one person--the city manager. If you understand what that authority means, you can recognize a balance of power when...
...room is equipped with a hand-cranked ventilator that sucks in outside air and could filter out radioactive dust. Most evenings, the fare includes steaks, omelets and salads. Come the holocaust, though, Deur's village clientele will be treated to a repast of freeze-dried haricots verts, vacuum-packed charcuterie and as much French wine as survives the first blast. The dining room ordinarily seats 30, but in a nuclear pinch the tables can be squeezed to accommodate...
Against the incumbent's stern, presidential warnings of a tax cut, the Republicans have rushed to fill what they term a "leadership vacuum," and appear anxious to spank Carter in public on the basis of the president's past economic flip-flops. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), himself a defeated candidate for both president and vice president, spoke out this weekend as the ranking Republican on the finance committee. "Those who are irresponsible in a time of crisis, including economic crisis, are those who cannot and will not act," Dole said in a sharp rejoinder to Carter's accusations...
...Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic music executive. But there is no style here. Producer Allan Carr's guiding principle seems to be: shoot everything that moves, throw it on the cutting-room floor, give the editor a vacuum cleaner and hope that it will all work out. It doesn't: Can't Stop the Music is overkill, all noise and motion...
...think the stalemate in the autonomy talks creates a climate in which extremists on either side tend to fill the vacuum...