Word: ballots
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...Coalition needed 1200 signatures in a state senatorial district to get the referendum on the ballot there, Hoffman said. The referendum will appear on ballots in districts by the state's two operating plants and by the northern boundary closest to the plant in Seabrook...
...academic standards, Hook insisted, confidentiality is required without fear of "resentment and retaliatory responses of unsuccessful candidates." Indeed, even before Judge Owens' decision, Georgia administrators seemed wary enough: they had asked Dinnan and his colleagues to decide on the cases of Blaubergs and other faculty via secret ballot rather than by more open discussion and disclosure of each member's views, thus making it easier for the university to defend against possible lawsuits. As to the charge of discrimination, Georgia's vice president for academic affairs, Virginia Trotter, formerly Assistant Secretary for Education at the Department...
...that changed, in Cambridge and nearly every other college town, in the '60s, as U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War triggered a rising crescendo of student protest. The anti-war sentiment spread from campus to city--though voters in 1967 defeated a ballot referendum urging a quick withdrawal, the city council by 1969 went on record asking for the return of U.S. troops to these shores...
...continue spending money here, I will challenge you on Proposition 2 1/2 between now and the election," Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci warned his fellows. Most officials in the city have squarely opposed the proposition on the November ballot that would slash property tax rates...
...Carter in a bind, and it gave a boost to Anderson. Like Carter's, Reagan's aides are convinced Anderson hurts the President more than their man. When New York State's Liberal Party last week endorsed Anderson and thus put him on the ballot where he could coax more votes from Carter, one Reagan aide was so pleased that he sent Anderson Strategist David Garth a bottle of champagne to celebrate...