Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President went to Peoria and the prairies of Illinois last week to urge voters there, and across the nation, to "stay the course," to stick with the economic program that has become the focus of Campaign '82. Of course, Reagan himself is not on the ballot. The election is a typical mid-term medley of House, Senate and Governors' races, each with its own mix of personalities and local concerns. But Reagan is on the road, both as a campaigner and a cause, because the unspoken issue in race after race is the economic program that...
Conference Center, the normally placid atmosphere of a technical gathering was electric with global tension last week Diplomats from 157 nations huddled in their seats or bantered uneasily across the room. They were awaiting the results of a secret ballot that could mean life or death tor one of the oldest cooperative agencies in the world, the United Nations-sponsored International Telecommunication Union (ITU), founded in 1865, and that could call into question the U.S. commitment...
...ADDITION to selecting their policymakers, Massachusetts voters tomorrow can directly affect Commonwealth policy. Four binding referenda on key state issues are on the ballot, as well as one making a recommendation on a pressing national issue, the nuclear freeze. All have significant implications and should be weighed carefully...
Question 1 on the ballot would remove present constitutional provisions preventing the use of state government revenue for private schools. Massachusetts laws are currently much stricter than federal constitutional codes, and this referendum would merely make state rules consistent with national policy. In a vacuum, the proposal would seem rational, since private schools in the Commonwealth often provide a better education, and since carefully constructed tax breaks could help poorer families give this opportunity to their children...
...campaign in favor of this ballot questions represents demagoguery at its worst. Urban residents have grown increasingly uncomfortable in recent years about the dangerous environment that surrounds them. But promising legal execution merely panders to these fears, rather than constructively taking care of them. Every thorough study has shown that the threat of death is not an effective deterrent. Proponents argue that, nevertheless, the death penalty is needed to prevent repeat offenders. The prospects of a convicted mass murder roving through the Square after getting parole is indeed frightening. But the solution is tougher sentencing standards, not killing felons...