Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to continue to give back to a place that so profoundly changed my life," Sheila James Kuehl wrote in her ballot statement...
...Educating talented individuals is the University's most important contribution to both society and its own future well-being," his ballot statement reads...
...ones who changed society the most were those who liberated a segment of humanity that had been fenced in by prejudice. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball; Helen Keller demolished old notions about the blind and deaf; and Harvey Milk dared to put himself on the ballot as an openly gay candidate. On his fourth...
Today, Israelis will go to the ballot box to elect a new prime minister. There are now only two contenders for the premiership: Likud leader and incumbent Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and Labor Party Chief Ehud Barak. Three other candidates, Centrist Yitzchak Mordechai, Israeli-Arab leader Azmi Bishara and hawk Zeev "Benny" Begin bowed out of the race in the 11th hour...
...major parties would enable Israel's leaders to execute the critical decisions necessary for peace based on real consensus. However, you won't hear either candidate utter the words "national unity" until after the elections. If Bibi were to do so, his ultra-Orthodox voters would not approach the ballot box. Likewise, if Barak spoke of a coalition with Likud, his Arab-Israeli swing voters may boycott the elections. Whether they like it or not, Netanyahu and Barak better get used to the concept of working side by side, for they may be doing so regardless of who wins...