Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appealing to the public at large was only one prong of the campaign; there was another sharper one, aimed right where it would affect the legislators most strongly. That is, in the ballot box. Legislators had to be convinced that feeling was deep enough on this issue to cost them votes. And for this, Bernays uncorked what he refers to as the "Segmental Approach." He takes a minor aspect of one general cause and projects it to the major interest of particular group. Or as Bernays explains it, "if you project the Save Memorial Drive movement in terms of money...
...that the Federation of Malaysia is a "nation-state." "The United Nations survey team that ascertained the supposed wishes of the people in 1963 was only an instrument of British rule," he said. Sarawak and Sabah, he added, should be given the opportunity to hold a plebiscite by secret ballot...
Despite the committee's apparent fable action, John J. Brenan, a opponent of the NASA laboratory, he was "enchanted with the vote". closeness of the ballot indicated pread opposition to the project. aid indicating, that there would be attempt in Congress to kill...
...hardly qualifies as a democracy since it is ruled by a single group, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The P.R.I. is a coalition of nearly every political faction in the nation, and every six years puts on a U.S.-style orgy of elections for the one presidential candidate on the ballot, who has been secretly selected by the P.R.I. party chiefs. Yet somehow it all works out fairly democratically, producing a metronomic swing from left to right in the P.R.I. governments. Argentina, in contrast, has the democratic forms without the music: in self-defense, the regime reserves the right to veto...
...whatever their motives, these postwar Republicans were the men whose "program included the granting of citizenship, civil rights, and the ballot to American Negroes." Their monuments are the 14th (due process and equal protection of the laws) and 15th (right to vote) Amendments, which heavily affected the North as well as the South and which perhaps could have been passed in no other...