Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somewhat annoyed with Daly's suspicion that I "rushed the book out to aid the UFW in the crucial farmworker elections now underway." Had he checked, he would have learned that the book was completed and in galley form before there was any inkling that a secret ballot election bill could ever be passed through the California legislature. It is common knowledge that there is a one-year lead time between the completion of a major book and its publication date...
Elaine Kistiakowsky, wife of George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, took the third delegate position in the second ballot...
...have spent most of their professional lives working to build and promote nuclear power plants. Last week they suddenly quit their well-paid jobs at GE's installation at San Jose, Calif. Calling in the press, they announced plans to work full time for a referendum on the ballot in the California June primary that would curb the construction of new nuclear power reactors in the state. Said Minor in his letter of resignation: "Nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons now present a serious danger to the future of all life on this planet...
...been the most successful left-wing party in Massachusetts, consistently gathering enough signatures to place its candidates on the ballot and usually receiving about five per cent of the vote...
...public office, and he is reportedly being strongly urged by supporters to seek the Democratic nomination for the New York Senate seat now held by Republican Senator James Buckley. But Moynihan has denied any intention of running, and he removed his name last week from the ballot for the Democratic primary in Massachusetts...