Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possibility of ballot stuffing or tampering could force the council to invalidate some of the votes cast Monday, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...track, a cast of underclassmen (who scored all but six of the Crimson's 71 points) were the movers and shakers (so to speak) for Harvard...
After more than three centuries of white domination, South Africans of every race cast ballots for the first time to select a postapartheid government. Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress party were expected to win handily. The vote was not without hitches. In Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, the line of eager voters grew to more than 4,000 people, while in some remote areas, government helicopters had to fly in thousands of extra ballots. But the chaos and violence that threatened to overwhelm the process early in the week had largely subsided by Thursday, as government...
...PAYS THE BILL? Though the A.N.C. has cast off most of its earlier Marxist affection for planned economies, it does have a five-year plan to address what Mandela refers to as "the basic needs of the masses." It is a 147-page document called "The R.D.P: The Reconstruction and Development Program," a blueprint for reorganizing and democratizing the society. At its heart is an $11 billion economic-development program that promises to provide employment and job training for 2.5 million people in public-works projects. It aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with...
...population to vote? I don't think the IEC was prepared for the vast numbers of people who turned out to vote that Wednesday. The voting station at which I was deployed expected less than 3,000 voters over both days, yet in fact nearly 5,000 votes were cast that first day alone. At 7:15 p.m. we ran out of ballot papers. Since the polling stations had originally been scheduled to close at 7 p.m., the voters waiting outside refused to believe we had actually run out. It was too much of a coincidence. We must have selfishly...