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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the system, each candidate must have a certain quota of votes in order to be elected. The quota is set by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: The Long Count; PR Votes in Cambridge | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

MEDIUM COOL. Writer-Director Haskell Wexler challenges Hollywood both with stylistic innovations and by dwelling on contemporary politics (the Chicago convention). Add forcefully realistic performances by a cast of unknowns and the result is dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...Justice Department will add a new consumer division, to be staffed with a score or more of lawyers and economists. It will operate much like the present antitrust division, filing suits against companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumers: Toward a Just Marketplace | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled. And the sky smiled too."); the melodies are scarcely more tuneful than a piece of hard chalk drawn across a blackboard. Even with O'Toole's oddly moving Sprechgesang and Clark's perfect phrasing, the numbers never add up to a score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Master | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...proposal that the administration hire minority group workers amounting to 20 per cent of the work force and add them to the site was defeated by the faculty. A spokesman for Afro had termed the solution a "cop-out" that would deflect attention from the discriminatory hiring practices of the construction industry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tufts Calls In 200 Police To Halt Afro Demonstration | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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