Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other candidates and make sure they get on the ballot in our state," Cuomo said he told the leaders...
...civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks are outraged that the man they elected, with the ballot they fought so hard to win, is under attack. To many people, the case against Arrington is a present-day version of trumped-up charges brought against King...
...before a single caucus or primary ballot has been cast anywhere, the national press and television have anointed Bill Clinton as the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Some pundits are speculating that he might even have the prize locked up in another eight or nine weeks. Their script: Clinton uses a victory or strong second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary Feb. 18 as a launching pad to wins in scattered primaries and caucuses from Arizona to Maine, and then storms the polls in 11 states, eight of them in his native South, that will vote...
...upper classes more than most. White-collar workers usually escape recessions. In 1981-82, for example, the white-collar unemployment rate increased one-sixth as much as the blue-collar rate. This time it has increased fully half as much. The factory worker has the ballot box, but he has less access to the national soapbox than do the manager and the office worker, the M.B.A. and the journalist now on the street looking for work. In part, then, this recession has been hyped for the same reason plane crashes get far more ink than bus accidents: it hits...
...also been the most Mob influenced. Three of its past five presidents were sentenced to prison. In 1988 the Justice Department hit the union with a racketeering lawsuit. To settle the case, the union agreed to let the government monitor day-to-day operations and organize a secret-ballot election. In the past, a small group of union insiders had chosen the Teamster president...