Word: ballots
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...company disclose its political contributors to a request to stop operating in a particular country Rarely, however, do such resolutions receive more than a few percent of shareholders proxy votes. The likelihood on changing any policy through shareholder resolutions is also reduced by the convention that any non returned ballot be counted as a vote for management. Harvard's influence is also limited because the University does not own more than a small part of any company...
...Cambridge's three state representative seats and two state senate slots passed last Tuesday, leaving Rep. Charles Flaherty and Rep. Saundra Graham, both filed as Democrats, running unopposed. Sen. Michael LoPresti, Jr. '70 faces opposition for the first time since 1974, by William Shakalis, who will go on the ballot as an independent, but is campaigning as a Democratic Socialist...
...battle reminiscent of the party's 1980 national convention, Massachusetts Democrats are now wrangling over the rules governing this May's state gathering--arguing whether the convention should be allowed to effectively limit the number of candidates of the September primary ballot...
...rule currently being challenged stipulates that any candidate for statewide office must first get 15 percent of the votes in the otherwise non-binding convention to get his name on the primary ballot. That rule, upheld unanimously last week by the Supreme Judicial Court, could spell disaster for O'Neill, who is currently backed by no more than 10 percent of the delegates, selected in ward caucuses three months...
...wing terror that have left some 30,000 people dead since October 1979. D'Aubuisson's election was an apparent defeat not only for outgoing junta President José Napoleón Duarte's Christian Democrats, who had won a 40% plurality in the March 28 ballot, but for the Reagan Administration, which had made no secret of its preference for the moderate Christian Democrats. The constituent assembly will name a provisional government to replace Duarte's junta, write a new constitution and prepare for elections...