Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very students responsible for devising in the first place--students who seem likely to on the council--hovered around the ballot-boxes count the votes. A new election run entirely by vested interests would go a long way toward about last week's shenanigans...
...idea of a negotiated settlement seems attractive as a possible solution to El Salvador's bloodletting. But that course of action has serious drawbacks for the U.S. at this stage. It would give the guerrillas power that they had won neither on the battlefield nor at the ballot box. Negotiations would vindicate guerrilla warfare by abandoning the principle that an insurgency should not be allowed to force a government to the bargaining table by means of violence. The talks would also be bound to increase the momentum for an eventual leftist triumph...
...version of the new law that the Legislature finally passed states the ballot question in terms of "additional" taxes, but that is only in "addition" to what Proposition 2 1/2 requires Cambridge to first cut, so that the net change would be zero. Anne Strong
...ballot questions pass, Cambridge will be able to level-tax and level-fund its public services in the coming fiscal year, instead of being forced to make drastic (10%-25%) cuts in police, fire, schools, health, public works, human services, libraries, etc., as would be dictated by Proportion...
...noon the debate was over. Each of 124 Newfaners wrote yes or no on a paper slip and filed up to a pair of white wooden ballot boxes. Soon Houston announced, "94 for and 30 against," to a solid wave of applause...