Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, and only then, will the voters who have stayed away from the ballot box because they have been forgotten send Newt and his pack of devils back home. Until then, look for the new sign in front of the Capitol building: "Abandon hope all yea who enter here...
...rule says the vote for leader must be secret, but it is. In recent history the predicted result has usually been affirmed. "But it may be different this time," says one Senator. "A secret ballot is the ultimate weapon. Tom may have it going in, and Chris may have it going...
...child is an ineffectual -- as well as unjust -- way of deterring the parent." Even the dissenting opinion acknowledged that "it would be folly -- and wrong -- to tolerate the creation of a segment of society made up of illiterate persons." But the decision split 5 to 4, and the ballot measure's proponents are hoping a new court will reopen the issue...
...American flags and attached them to wooden sticks in preparation for Veterans Day. But in her sunny classroom last week, down the road from a migrant camp where Steinbeck set his famous novel, Wiswall sadly put the red-white-and-blue banners aside. Californians had just approved a ballot initiative to deny public education and social services to illegal immigrants. How many of her Spanish-speaking five-year-olds were undocumented? Wiswall was not about to ask. But one thing she had decided: "I can't send these flags home with them now," she said. "I have the feeling everything...
...Ballot Measures...