Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faithfully supported since the New Deal. "Blacks have a choice: to come out fighting or to come out voting," Williams says. "The intelligent choice is to vote." Adds Gary, Ind., Mayor Richard Hatcher: "Blacks have finally reached the point of political maturity where they see the power in the ballot...
Thatcher aimed her sharpest thrusts at the heart of the Labor Party, the trade unions. She pledged to "bring democracy to the shop-floor workers" by introducing legislation that would require union leaders to stand for re-election every five years and call strikes only by secret ballot. The proposals represent a direct challenge to entrenched left-wing leaders who have dominated the labor movement recently...
After considering the arguments, the N.C.C. delegates will reconvene in November to vote on the Metropolitan application. If that passes, a second ballot by the delegates, and then by each denomination in the N.C.C., will occur in May 1984. From the tenor of last week's debate, the homosexual church has little chance of being accepted...
...evidence. The political Establishment had polished up its manifestoes, printed new campaign posters and raised partisan invective to libelous levels. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot had had his shaggy locks trimmed. Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had had her teeth capped. The country was, in short, coming down with ballot-box fever. Nearly everyone expected Thatcher to call a general election for next month, al most a year before her five-year term runs out. Thatcher was mum on the subject, so the nation looked for omens, above all in local elections that took place last Thursday in every part...
City election laws require that 8 percent of Cambridge registered voters must sign the petition to place a binding referendum on the ballot. Currently, that means collecting 4000 signatures...