Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect to lose, and I am going to be there until the last ballot is counted. I like a good fight, and it will be a good one. I don't have any fear or apprehension. I sleep very well...
...WINTER'S night in April, 1948 the white clock in the almost-empty Cambridge City Council chambers struck 1 a.m. The nine councilors had been going at it for hours, ballot after ballot, trying to find a new mayor for Cambridge, and this particular vote, one of hundreds taken since the session had opened, didn't look promising...
...Second Ballot. The hostesses rejected the contract, partly to assert their independence from the male-dominated pilots' union. In response to the airline's petition, Federal Judge C. Clyde Atkins last week ordered the stewardesses to vote again on the pact. He specifically enjoined the hostesses' leaders, who were accused of sabotaging the first balloting, from campaigning for rejection. Even so, the outcome may be close. Having been angered for years by National's "sexist" advertising ("I'm Barbara. Fly me."), the hostesses seem determined to strike National like it has never been struck before...
...Ford's camp quickly pointed out, leaders in December's polls do not always win nominations in the summer. Four years ago, for example, only 6% of Democratic voters backed George McGovern, yet the South Dakota Senator managed to win on the first ballot the following July. Still, Ford had the advantage of being a sitting President, and his poor showing in the poll startled his advisers. Said one White House aide: "If there's any apathy, that ought...
When they went to the polls to choose a new mayor in a runoff election last week, San Franciscans seemed preoccupied with the plight of a city 3,000 miles away. Both candidates were survivors of a Nov. 4 election that had eleven names on the ballot. Both-Democratic State Senator George Moscone and Republican John J. Barbagelata, a member of the city's board of supervisors-agreed hat the overriding issue of the campaign was not San Francisco's woes but New York City's. "The day of the giveaway is over," said Moscone, 46. Said...