Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHUL-Faculty Council committee report presented at last week's CHUL meeting argues that ideally students as individuals should boycott products, but that some products, such as sauce ingredients, are used by the University in a way that makes individual boycotts doomed to failure. If students show by ballot that they find use of some product to be morally repugnant, a boycott at an administrative level will take place, under CHUL's plan...
...wording of the ballot-yes or no to an Islamic republic-has drawn considerable criticism. Last week the National Democratic Front, a new opposition faction, threatened to boycott the referendum if the ballot was not changed. Iran's two armed militias, the Marxist fedayan and the Islamic mojahedeen, hinted that they might support the boycott...
...snakes around her neck. A Tennessee preacher promises to walk the length of New Hampshire with a camel. A more pragmatic Indian also is scheduled to walk through the state-on snowshoes. Benjamin Fernandez, a Californian who wants more private-sector loans to small business, will be on the ballot, hoping to attract New Hampshire's nearly nonexistent Hispanic vote. A maker of stuffed frogs from New Jersey has indicated his intention to run, or hop, on behalf of "lowcost government...
...next big event on the Iranian revolution's calendar is the March 30 referendum to be held on the country's new form of government. All Iranians over 16 will be eligible to cast a ballot on a single question: "Do you approve the replacement of the former regime with an Islamic republic, whose constitution will be voted on by the nation at a later date?" Those voting yes will mark part of a ballot colored in the green of Islam, while those who are opposed must choose a portion dyed in the red of Iran...
...course, rush willingly into creating its own watchdog; it only acted when Common Cause collected 95,506 signatures in support of a new ethics statute. The legislature did, however, squeeze through a watered-down bill in order to avoid seeing the tougher Common Cause proposal on the November ballot. As local attorney Robert Moncreiff explains, "while a lot of people woke up this January and felt the law had dropped out of the sky, it was clear that it would have been on the November referendum list if the legislature didn't act quickly--and nobody wanted that...