Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while five candidates hope days of handshaking and thousands of dollars pay off at the ballot box. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) has steered clear of this derby. Instead, he and a legion of college students including about 25 from Harvard, will today canvass New Hampshire, the scene of the first official primary next February...
...company came under fire at last week's meeting of the council, which voted to put a referendum banning nuclear arms research in Cambridge on the November ballot...
Votes on the first ballot were still being counted when the 211 electors who had gathered at Jesuit headquarters in Rome began to applaud. By an overwhelming margin, the general congregation of the Society of Jesus last week chose its new superior general: the Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, 54, a Dutch priest highly respected within the church's largest religious order of men (26,000 members) for his piety, scholarship and skills as a prudent diplomat...
Your September 19 editorial on the Nuclear Free Cambridge question is accurate both in rebuking the City Council for denying ballot access for such an important issue, and in calling for efforts to educate Cambridge voters so they can make an informed decision come November. It is difficult to address in full the various issues you raised, but some brief clarification can be made within this limited space...
...counsel for Charles Draper Laboratories-the local firm that would be most acutely affected by the proposed ban on nuclear research and production and an intervener in the Supreme Judicial Court case on behalf of the council-has challenged the city's right to place the measure on the ballot...