Word: american
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Blacks hold only about 2 percent of all the elected offices in the United States. So key victories yesterday by Blacks in New York City, Seattle and possibly Virginia will prove a major boost in the numbers of important African-American officeholders nationwide...
...city of Cincinnati, Ohio scrapped the innovative voting system a few years later. As did the city of Worcester, Mass. In fact, since the 1940s, every American city that has adopted the highly-touted system for ensuring minority representation has repealed...
Although several systems of voting--including those used in most European countries--are a form of PR, the variant that American cities have historically used is the one Cambridge employs--the single transferable ballot...
...Viet Nam memorial in Washington has become a touchstone for American feelings about that war. Now in Montgomery the artist has created the first- ever memorial to the civil rights movement -- a risky work that may delve even deeper into the American character...
...American Scene...