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...that was enough to put Ford over the top. The 16c amendment was dead. From his control position on the floor, the normally soft-spoken Griffin shouted, "That dood it! That's it! That's it!" Final count: 1,180 no, 1,069 yes, 10 abstain...
...forces supporting President Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan. The most crucial one could be over whether delegates must vote for the candidate they were chosen to support by home-state voters, or whether they are free to cast their ballots as they wish. A companion stickler: Can delegates abstain? Since it is generally agreed that Ford's strength will wane if there is more than one ballot, Reaganites might attempt to promote abstentions, depriving the President of the winning 1,130 votes...
They do not make love during the first two years of marriage, and they abstain completely for four to six years after the birth of a child. Premarital and extramarital sex are virtually unknown, and there is apparently no homosexuality or other sexual outlet. What is more, no one seems to show any signs of unhappiness or stress...
...Africans' case was so flaccid that it could not be sustained, even given the strong bias against Israel and the industrial countries that prevails in almost all U.N. bodies. When Panama said it would abstain from the balloting (probably because it did not want to anger Washington, with which it is negotiating the future status of the Panama Canal), it became apparent that the resolution would fall one short of the nine votes required for passage in the 15-member Council. The U.S. and Britain and possibly Italy, Japan and Sweden would have opposed it; France would also have...
...group, which consisted of those who had been downing more than nine times the alcoholic consumption of the average drinker, more than half were unemployed and separated or divorced. After a year and a half, about 70% had shown significant improvement. While about a third of the improved had abstained for at least six months, another third were drinking normally, and the remaining alcoholics were imbibing heavily on occasion but abstaining much of the time. What struck the researchers most was that the relapse rate among the "normal" drinkers-who consumed an average of one drink...