Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis. The Left in turn denounced its opponents' indifference to unemployment and inequality. The verdict of the voters was both clear and negative. They failed to endorse the Left's projects for a new society. But the fact that the Majority received only 46 per cent of the first ballot (vs. the Left's 48 per cent) indicates that they had not given it a vote of confidence...
During the first 60 days of the cooling-off period, federal mediators attempt to get the two sides to agree to a pact. In the next 15 days, the National Labor Relations Board must hold a secret ballot of the strikers on management's final offer. If the offer is rejected, the Government must ask the court for a dissolution of the injunction, and the President must report to Congress on the dispute. After the injunction is lifted, the union is free to resume its strike...
...last pre-election polls had given the combined left a substantial lead over the center-right parties. But it was far from clear whether a first-round victory would foreshadow a leftist triumph in the crucial second-round ballot next Sunday. Much would depend on whether the feuding Socialists and Communists could patch up their differences and agree to support each other in the Sunday runoff. If the left were to have any chance of winning, each of the two parties would have to withdraw its candidate in districts where the other's candidate had won in the first...
...role model for his profession was a Marine drill instructor: shouting, short hair and slavish obedience. But Wootten encouraged his players to call him by his first name. Although he insists on tidy hair and coats and neckties on game day, Wootten allows the team to vote, by secret ballot, on training rules. His simple, if heretical explanation: "The team sets the rules because it's their team...
...more," says he. "This is a government of, by and for the people, not the Government." A year ago, he and his Los Angeles-based United Organization of Taxpayers fell short by 1,200 names of the 500,000 signatures needed to put their property-tax amendment on the ballot. Last May he formed an alliance with the People's Advocate, headed by retired Real Estate Salesman Paul Gann, and tried again. By the end of the 150-day signature-gathering period prescribed by law, the petition papers were covered with a phenomenal 1.2 million signatures. Another...