Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote on the compromise budget package they had worked out with the White House on Thursday, to take advantage of the impetus they expected from Reagan's speech. But that day it was the Democrats who dared them to go ahead, while Reagan's G.O.P. allies repeatedly postponed a ballot that they knew they could...
...Swarthmore, Pa. native wasted no time putting her name on the Ivy Rookie of the Year ballot, sending her first--and Harvard's 10th--goal of the afternoon past Grant just 13 seconds into the second half...
...vote provoked an equally dramatic and unexpected measure of support for Duarte from the 46,000-member Salvadoran armed forces. As ballot boxes began to arrive at election headquarters in the capital of San Salvador, right- wingers led by D'Aubuisson charged that the military had conspired with the Christian Democrats to perpetrate an electoral fraud. The protest stalled official vote counting pending a ruling by the Central Election Council, a three-man body dominated by conservatives. Fears arose that the election might be invalidated...
...captured at a Moscow polling station during last month's national elections. There, under the glare of television lights, stood Mikhail Gorbachev. Instead of keeping his family away from the spotlight, he had brought along his wife Raisa, 52, their daughter Irina and granddaughter Oksana. After sealing his ballot, Gorbachev carefully placed it in the box. When photographers asked him to repeat the scene, he declined, jocularly noting he was allowed to vote only once...
...company's ballot is called a proxy, and most companies send out their proxies each winter or spring along with their annual reports. Shareholders can mail in their votes before the annual corporate meeting--which most companies hold in April or May--or cast them at the meeting itself, where all votes are tabulated...