Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East-West struggle for dominance in Latin America. As Haig put it, "The threat to democracy from opponents of peaceful change is particularly acute in El Salvador. The Duarte government is committed to political reform. Its opponents are determined to win by force what they could not achieve by ballot." Added Enders: "To withhold assistance at this point would be to abandon El Salvador...
...have so official bearing. Delegates selected at the meetings are neither legally nor morally bound to support any candidate at the May 22 nominating convention in Springfield. Nor must party members stick to the choice of that gathering. The politician with the (D) after his name on November's ballot will not be finally selected until the September primary...
...plants of the Washington Public Power System are 500 percent over budget and six years behind schedule. With $6.8 billion in outstanding debt. WPPS is the largest borrower ever in the municipal bond market; but it can't get any more funds because Washington's voters recently approved a ballot proposition giving themselves veto power over any more WPPS bond issues. As Joseph Swidler, former chairman of the Federal Power Commission, succinctly put it. "Utilities have run out of money." Nuclear power, then, is both an environmental nightmare and an economic basket case...
Before her name can officially go on the ballot, Morss must get 10,000 certified signatures from registered Democrats. She currently has no formal endorsements and declined to say which ones are forthcoming...
...arcades. Bally's development people think it is fun, but right now, no one has any idea whether it will be a lap jumper or a puddle maker. "This is the most democratic business in the world," says Mount Prospect, Ill., Arcade Owner Bill Herman. "You got a ballot box, and people vote with their quarters...