Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanism guarantees that any group which wishes to band together may elect people exact to their proportion...
...chances for election will be hurt by the vote. Walker, who said he was "shocked" at the results, predicted. The CCA is attempting to elect five members to the nine-seat council in the election, set for November...
...late July, when local developers hauled them into court in an effort to enjoin enforcement of the city's tough restrictions on condominiums. They failed when a federal judge let the law stand for the time being, but the real estate interests vowed to redouble their efforts to elect a conservative majority to the city council in upcoming elections...
...Hightower, president of the Texas Consumer Association: "As the establishment stiff-arms us, they build issues for us to run on. We have eager ears for the first time in years." The Illinois Public Action Council, a coalition of 95 citizens' groups, has formed a political committee to elect sympathetic officeholders. Minnesota Citizens Action, a statewide consumer organization, responded to a cut in its federal funding by setting out to knock on every door in St. Paul, and many doors elsewhere, in a successful membership drive...
Fight they did. First they waged a battle to reverse the order of business. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania had hoped to ram through his re-election on the first day of the congress, and thus gain effective control over all subsequent proceedings. The delegates would have none of it. Instead, they decided to elect a new 200-member Central Committee first and then choose a leader by secret ballot from among its ranks. Never before in the Soviet bloc had such a tactic been used. Said one congress official: "They tried to push the delegates too far too fast...