Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month Yeltsin cast an absentee ballot for Bush. He released information from the flight recorder of KAL 007, the Korean airliner that a Soviet interceptor shot down off Siberia in 1983. Yeltsin was making a humanitarian gesture to the families of the passengers, who included many Americans. But he was also inviting Bush to take credit for having encouraged the move, thus giving the beleaguered President a boost in the polls. Worried that his government was backing the wrong horse, the Russian ambassador to Washington, Vladimir Lukin, sent Yeltsin a positive assessment of Clinton and urged the conciliatory call...
Four Dunster residents ran on the ballot forone position in this election, whereas sixcandidates ran in the fall election for fiveseats...
...parse. The Texan drew many of the voters who said they valued change, and might have continued to surge had he not wounded himself with his reckless charges about Republican dirty tricks. When asked the hypothetical question of how they would have voted had Perot not been on the ballot, Clinton edged Bush by 7 percentage points...
...turned out there just weren't enough of them to bring him even close to the victory he kept promising. If he had been just another computer salesman from Dallas with a 1930s haircut and a nasal twang, he probably would never have got his name on the ballot, let alone been admitted to the inner circle of candidates. His money -- plus his record as a can-do entrepreneur -- gained him that much. But it's doubtful, given who Perot is and how he chose to run, that any amount of money could have bought him the presidency...
...particularly new that students areconcerned," Trelstad said. "It is new that theyexpressed it at the ballot...