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Some of the council approved the new zoning restriction, but a few ___1___ members refused to cast votes. None of them actually approved of the ___2___ bookstore next to the little league field, but they wanted to find a better way to legally ___3___ the ___4___ situation.


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Councilman Parker, a wealthy native of the small town, knew that a few council members had a(n) ___1___ desire to remove him from office. Some of them resented his ___2___ lifestyle, and others claimed that Parker was careless because he lived under the ___3___ of his wealth and thus had no fear of getting fired. They also called Parker a ___4___ because he had the habit of interrupting conversations and barging into offices without knocking.