Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote on the very first ballot taken at City Hall, the city councilors elected Duehay, a 13-year local lawmaker, to the largely ceremonial position...
...came as no surprise last November that, while the rest of Massachusetts--and for that matter the nation--veered to the right and voted overwhelmingly in support of Ronald Reagan, Cambridge went in the opposite direction: more than 78 percent of voting-age Cantabs cast a ballot for the liberal Mondale/Ferraro ticket. In fact, every single precinct in Cambridge voted in favor of the Democratic underdogs...
Three referenda questions likely to be on this November's ballot should also spark considerable controversy. One calls for the discontinuation of deadly nerve gas testing within city limits; the second deals with pornography as a form of sexual discrimination; and the third asks residents to voice their opposition to Harvard's real estate practices in the city...
Mugabe's socialism came about through the ballot box and was largely the work of a few Black leaders rather than a large scale movement led by the working class. The transition from capitalism to socialism cannot be the work of a few elites, especially when they run a country that is so dependent on foreign capital. For genuine socialism in Zimbabwe, the working class, as a group composed of many workers, must take power of the state. The "self emancipation of the working class," in Marx's words, entails a revolution from below rather than a nationalist liberation...
...from most of the University's various schools. Morgan says she hasn't heard any complaints or proposals for improving the system, which she says she feels "works quite well." She declined to comment on Dershowitz's proposal that at least some degrees be awarded by faculty and student ballot, a plan Dershowitz says would ensure that at least some honorary choices reflect the will of the University as a whole...