Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...News nationwide sampling of political reporters and local politicians indicated as late as mid-January that Muskie would go to Miami Beach with 1,199 first-ballot delegate votes -only 310 short of victory. Newsweek noted with pride in January that it had pinpointed Muskie in a cover story more than a year earlier as "the man to beat." A TIME election survey in the Feb. 7 issue had Muskie leading in every region except the South and concluded: "He looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach." Other publications and pundits said roughly...
Thank God the time is near at hand when we can show our bullet-happy President the power of a ballot...
...serious attention to proxy battles. Bok made that commitment last summer, and he has kept it. Most of the decisions do not go beyond what Pusey's Corporation would have approved. But under Pusey, the Treasurer's office had the critical voice; it would usually send in the proxy ballot before informing the Corporation that it had voted with management. Under Bok, the Administration considers the issues and publishes lengthy handouts to prove...
...could be a close race; polls show Wallace, Sanford and Edmund Muskie far ahead of Shirley Chisholm and Henry Jackson who, like Muskie, is not campaigning in the state though he is on the ballot. On May 6 North Carolina voters will indicate whether, as one national Democratic leader contends, many Southerners "are sick of having the rest of the country think the South is all like George Wallace...
...Union to be recognized by the NLRB, 30 per cent of the teaching fellows must sign a "showing of interest" petition. The Board would then hold hearings or a secret-ballot election among the teaching fellows, an NLRB official said yesterday...