Word: electable
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...Student Council will be made up of 85 representative--five elected from each House or Yard area. These students will serve on five different committees of the council, three of which will elect from among their members the student representatives to three student-faculty committees dealing with academics, housing, and student life...
Abramoff, a Brandeis senior, spoke to more than 100 students from 15 colleges who gathered in Emerson Hall this weekend to elect officers, hear speeches by Republican gubernatorial candidates and debate policy resolutions at the group's tenth annual convention...
...care much whether their victim belongs to the left or the right. Arthur Bremer, who crippled George Wallace, thought first of killing George McGovern. Lee Harvey Oswald apparently shot at General Edwin Walker, a right-wing fanatic, before killing President Kennedy. Giuseppe Zangara, who took aim at President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 (accidentally killing the mayor of Chicago), said that he would just as soon have killed Herbert Hoover...
...mayor-elect, like most of the city's Spanish-speaking population, grew up in the barrio. Son of a retired civilian administrator for the Army, Cisneros earned a master's degree in public administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in that subject from George Washington University. After spending a year as a White House Fellow in 1971-72, he returned to San Antonio's West Side in 1974 to live with his wife and two daughters. Says Dan Parman, a wealthy conservative who supported Cisneros: "Henry...
...federal funds for hiring municipal workers and low-level workers in San Antonio's important tourist industry. Cisneros feels he must wean San Antonio from its dependence on Government money. He also concedes that the costs may end up being borne by the Hispanic working people who helped elect him - and who account for most of the city's 6.6% unemployment rate (vs. 4.2% in Dallas and Houston). For them, the novelty of having the nation's first big-city Mexican-American mayor may quickly wear thin. Acknowledges Cisneros: "I'm not interested in being...