Word: balloted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only minutes earlier, 886 electors had cast ballots approving Yeltsin's candidacy for city-wide representative to the Congress of People's Deputies, a recently created legislature that Mikhail Gorbachev is counting on to boost his floundering reform drive. Yeltsin's success was a signal turnabout. Sixteen months ago, Gorbachev ousted the Moscow party boss after he passionately attacked the slow pace of Soviet reform. Last week Yeltsin overcame that taint as one of two candidates to survive the emotional twelve- hour meeting called to decide how many of ten proposed candidates would appear on the ballot for Moscow...
...Ukrainian Republic it appeared that at least 40 of 175 districts would have only one candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev made a hasty trip to the region, where he exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
Harvard alumni reading the ballot for this spring's Board of Overseers election might think they are looking at a copy of Newsweek...
Daley and Sawyer are the top contenders in the four-way Democratic primary today, while three candidates are running on the GOP ballot...
...while the School Committee continues to remain an elective body, the mayor is considering placing a referendum on the ballot next November that would change the current system. Until then, however, the mayor and his advisers continue to use the dispute about the desegregation plan to highlight their objections to the current School Committee...