Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which was apparent as soon as the first-round results began to trickle in on the evening of June 14. Surpassing even the most optimistic polls, Socialist candidates won 37.5% of the popular vote?half again as much as Mitterrand's first-round total on the April 26 presidential ballot. The neo-Gaullists and Giscardians took 20.8% and 19.2% respectively...
...over former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing appears to have begun a swing to the Socialists. One poll last week gave the Socialists and their allies, the tiny Left Radical Movement, 36% of the vote, up dramatically from the 28% they won on the first presidential ballot. According to most forecasts, the Socialists could double their current total of 117 seats in the 491-member National Assembly when the two rounds of elections-on June 14 and 21 -are completed. Barring a string of disasters at the local level, the Socialists should at least be within easy...
...first, U.S. officials found the guidelines acceptable. Then, after months of lobbying by the three U.S. formula makers and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, an interagency task force recommended that the U.S. discreetly abstain on the WHO code. Yet days before the ballot, word came down from the White House to vote no. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, declared that U.S. aid programs would continue to encourage breast feeding, but that the WHO limit on infant-formula advertising "has grave constitutional problems for us-we couldn't adopt it here at home...
...activists can claim at least one victory: the state in 1978 created the office of Hawaiian affairs, whose nine trustees were elected in a Hawaiians-only ballot last November. The office is still hiring staff members, but for the first time the islands' dispossessed minority has a popularly elected agency to represent its interests...
...bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven Stolpe was so disgusted by his tax assessment that he threatened to burn all his unpublished manuscripts. An actor even set himself ablaze last March outside Stockholm's tax office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic Labor Party after four decades of growth in Sweden's social experiment. Last week the only alternative to the socialists, the ruling three-party coalition of Centrist Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin, was in trouble. Once again...