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Geographic sprawl and an outdated balloting system make the Philippines susceptible to vote fixing. Of the 90,000 polling stations located on more than 7,000 islands, only a handful have votes tabulated by computer. The majority use paper ballots, manual counting, chalkboard addition and telephone or telex messages to relay the results...
...attentive waitress presents the evening's menu on a small chalkboard, but the several choices don't appear to vary much from night to night...
...rakish craft into a steep and punishing climb, high above the cheering audience and the aeronautics engineers busily jotting notes on clipboards. The plane almost stalled, but it managed to pull level before it swooped back home, scattering the judges as it buzzed their table, ducked under a chalkboard and finally slammed into the bleachers. The scene was not Edwards Air Force Base but Seattle's Kingdome, where fans usually cheer the flight of baseballs and footballs. The prototype was only 10 in. long, and its sortie of 16.26 seconds had just won the time-aloft event, professional division...
...television cameras whirred and photographers snapped away last week, a clerk at the Paris currency exchange wrote the historic numbers on the chalkboard next to the words United States: 10.0230. In Milan, another clerk scribbled in the new price for the dollar: 2003.40 lire. The U.S. dollar, which only five years ago was the world's weakest major currency, had just passed two important milestones: 10 francs and 2,000 lire to the dollar. In New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and almost everywhere else that currencies are traded, investors and speculators were betting on the dollar with an enthusiasm that...
...from the offensive line, two All-Ivy selections are gone, leaving a huge hole on the Bruin chalkboard and some big spots to fill...