Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race for Cambridge's mayoralty enters its 785th ballot, with the vote split evenly between Lenny Russell and David Wylie. Swing vote Al Vellucci hints he may back George Wald for the post, even though Wald is not a city councilor. "At least he's not a frintcake like the rest of those guys at Harvard," says the East Cambridge councilor...
After the inauguration yesterday, amid a throng of onlookers, they took one ballot, and no one got a majority. Then councilor Walter Sullivan stood up and said, "I move we adjourn until next Monday." It may not be the last time...
...legislators themselves. We've got to change the rules in this game where the legislators play around with our money. We've got to become the umpire." To that end, CAST has collected most of the 554,000 signatures necessary to put a measure on the ballot that would force the legislature to specify clearly the purposes of all appropriations. If the initiative passes, California's profligate legislators will find themselves in a chastening light. The prospect of elected officials justifying their ice cream bills has California taxpayers smacking their lips...
...turning point came on Dec. 3, when Waldheim withdrew his name. He was apparently acknowledging that no number of ballots could overcome China's stubborn opposition to a man not from the Third World. Salim, opposed by the U.S. for his occasionally strident anti-American rhetoric, followed suit five days later. That left the field open for a stable of dark horses. The first straw poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen...
...ordeal by secret ballot, the exercise had become as exhausting as the U.S. presidential primary system. Sixteen times in the course of five weeks, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council had cast their votes for U.N. Secretary-General. Just as many times, the necessary nine countries had voted to re-elect the urbane Austrian incumbent, Kurt Waldheim, 62, who has held the job for two five-year terms. And on each occasion, the People's Republic of China had blocked a Waldheim victory by exercising to veto power. Finally Waldheim appeared to give...