Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that disables their personalities." By necessity, the severest criticisms of the Vatican come not by the design of the author, but rather by the little absurdities that creep through the narrative. Nichols, for example, dryly sets forth the procedure for papal selection; he hardly mentions the irony of a ballot system so full of verifications and double checks that the cardinals seem less like spiritual colleagues than paranoid poll-watchers. Similarly, when Nichols launches into a description of the new location of Pope John Paul II's weekly audiences, he scarcely notices the irony of the fact that...
...difficult to implement; nonetheless, he has already called on the association's members to comply. But last week the Massachusetts Beverage Industry and Labor Committee announced a drive to collect the 29,434 signatures necessary to get a referendum repealing the bill on next November's ballot. Their chance of success may be slight. When opponents of Maine's law managed to get a referendum on the ballot in 1979, the voters snowed them under by a vote...
...there is any message in the way voters responded to this year's ballot initiatives and local races, it seems to be that, at a time of cutbacks in federal spending, many Americans want their local governments run efficiently, and never mind how, so long as the price does not come out of their hides. There were exceptions: in New York State, voters narrowly approved a $500 million bond issue for prison construction, and in New Jersey they supported $350 million in bonds to improve the state's water supply. But generally the electorate shied from proposals that...
...whoever put them out, though, helped her efforts. And the Independents wooed her supporters--a group calling itself the Cambridge Condominium Network endorsed Wilkes number one, but urged her supporters to back Danehy, Leonard R. Russell, Walter J. Sullivan, and Donald Fantini--all Independents--on the rest of the ballot...
...some ways, then, it was a small minority of condo owners that was able to beat the CCA's hopes for a fifth seat; they did it more by supporting Independents number two and three on their ballot than by backing Wilkes number one. Skillful organization by many paid off; Walsh, watching the vote count Friday, said "I'm very, very pleased with how it's going...