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...percent turnout clause inserted by the Faculty the "no" ballots cast last week by more than a voters actually secured the passage of the con- that threshold requirement left opponents of the to a tactical dilemma whether to abstain from voters more than half of the College joined them, or to against the document, and hope more than a third of likewise...
...City's main distinction is that it merges medicine and prayer, symbolized by a 60-ft. bronze sculpture of joined hands at the facility's entrance. All doctors and nurses are required to take oaths to "exemplify Christlike character" and abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. While they minister to the flesh, specially trained "prayer partners" tend to the mind and spirit. Says Roberts: "We seek to saturate patient treatment in the atmosphere of the power of prayer, both medicine and prayer becoming a single and continuous...
...told the Boll Weevils: "There is no way I can look myself in the mirror and go out and campaign against you"-that is, against those conservative Democrats who vote for his tax bill. White House aides asserted later that the President had not intended a flat pledge to abstain from opposing their reelection, but the carrot certainly was dangled in front of them...
...what is becoming an annual tradition, the Corporation continued to abstain on most shareholder resolutions concerning South Africa. It was revealed this spring that, as usual, the fellows may have been shooting for number one: In 1979-80, the University cast more abstentions on shareholder resolutions than any other college or university. Tuition, Room and Board Costs Total % Rise...
...first, U.S. officials found the guidelines acceptable. Then, after months of lobbying by the three U.S. formula makers and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, an interagency task force recommended that the U.S. discreetly abstain on the WHO code. Yet days before the ballot, word came down from the White House to vote no. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, declared that U.S. aid programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home...