Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty will meet on Thursday, April 17 at 2 p.m. to elect the seven tenure and two non-tenure members of the Committee. A ballot will have been prepared containing a list of all nominees, grouped in the two categories of tenure and non-tenure members. Each Faculty member will vote for seven (7) candidates in the tenure members. Each Faculty member will vote for seven (7) candidates in the tenure category and two (2) candidates in the non-tenure category on the ballot provided. Any candidate receiving a majority on the first ballot will be declared elected...
...make the voting easier and fairer the committee is clearly investigating the possibility of having proxy voting, which would eliminate the need to attend the annual meeting to vote. Coop members would receive a ballot by mail with the stockholders' slate and any other slate which had gathered 25 signatures. Voting eligibility might expand to include all current Coop members. Although this plan would make the voting more indicative of the entire Coop membership, it would diminish the chance of electnig an alternate slate. After the last annual meeting, Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law and Coop vice...
...hissing." Three centuries after Colbert's cynical appraisal, the contemporary American taxpayer feels thoroughly plucked-and he is hissing louder than ever. Now the ides of April are approaching-the deadline for filing is the 15th of this month-and the resentment of taxpayers points increasingly toward a ballot-box revolt. In a spontaneous outpouring of popular indignation, citizens by the thousands have deluged Washington with complaints about rising taxes. With much justice, they insist that the whole U.S. tax structure is inequitable, capricious and economically damaging...
...busy center of Latin American industry; of a heart attack; in Paris. After becoming Governor in 1938, De Barros spent his 28-year reign building a network of highways and hospitals. He also took an impressive cut off the top of the porco barrel, openly bragged of tampering with ballot boxes. Still, he survived all purges, until President Humberto Branco could tolerate his corruption no longer. De Barros was exiled...
...growth of democracy was characterized by three related elements: widespread participation in the political process which was deeper and more meaningful than the ceremonial functioning of casting one's ballot; open access to elective office which does not pretend to be compatible with the development of an office holding elite; and thirdly, a sense among the people that they did possess the ability to effectively manipulate their government. These concepts are interrelated, and each of them makes a common contribution: opening, and keeping open, channels between the people and the government...