Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven-piece band served up a bouncy rendition of the once popular tune Ain't No Stopping Us Now. In the steamy hotel ballroom, Democratic partisans lifted a rhythmic chant: "Mabus, Mabus, Mabus." On the podium, Mississippi's new Governor-elect let out a short celebratory whoop, then slowly declared, "Change has come." He repeated his campaign theme, "Mississippi will never be last again...
Under Cambridge's proportional representation system, the ballots must be counted, redistributed, and recounted many times to decide the election. In the Council race, election commissioners first establish a "quota" of votes necessary to elect a Councilor based on the number of ballots cast...
About 200 undergraduates turned out Thursday and Friday to elect five "general members" to the Student Advisory Committee to the Harvard Foundation, an organization designed to promote race relations on campus...
...doesn't seem to matter that economists across the political spectrum agree that drastic steps to reduce the deficit will, ultimately, weaken the economy. Liberal economists say that spending cuts and increased taxes in the present state of the economy would only exacerbate recessionary tendencies. Robert Eisner, president-elect of the American Economic Association, says that budget cutting would be a "mindless throwback to the economics of Herbert Hoover...
...other hand, David E. has special reason to be nervous because of the city proportional representation system. It takes only about 2000 votes to elect a candidate, and most victories are by margins of a few hundred votes or less--so even a few cases of confusion could have a large effect...