Word: ballot
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...Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name in the papers, but most Basques now prefer to settle this at the ballot...
Fried was apparently persuasive; the SJC voted unanimously to uphold the ballot question...
Four GOP presidential hopefuls --Phil Gramm,Pete Wilson,Arlen Specterand Bob Dornan - have asked New York Gov. George Pataki to derail Bob Dole's attempt to keep them off the state's primary ballot. Pataki has joined most other high-ranking New York Republicans in backing Dole for president.TIME chief political correspondent Michael Kramerexplains that under New York election rules, Dole could keep other names off the ballot in certain key congressional districts, unless his opponents engage in ruinously-expensive grass-roots efforts. Dole learned this trick the hard way back in 1988, when Vice President George Bush used...
Still, two troubling trends persist. For one, even with Proposition 187 on the ballot last fall, very few eligible Latinos made it to the polls. For another, African-Americans are growing increasingly resentful of Latinos, who are winning away Blacks' service and government jobs because they have a newly marketable skill: they speak Spanish...
...told an audience of 3,200 people at Salem State College Tuesday night. Can he afford to wait? GOP primary contenders are racing to compete now for campaign money and talented staffers. But as an indy,TIME political contributor Laurence Barrettsays, Powell would have little trouble getting on the ballot much later. One thing's sure - it can't hurt book sales.Campaign '96 File