Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They're going to elect one someday. But you never know what will happen until people make up their minds," Veilucci said yesterday...
...council has been known to take months to elect a new mayor. Two years ago it took 348 ballots before any councilor was able to achieve five votes...
...annual Christmas rush-in part because it seemed to be getting almost as regular. For the fourth time in five years -a pace that left many voters wishing that political leaders would go back to serving out their three-year mandates -the people were being called on to elect a national government. Furthermore, the electorate was doubtful whether the complex economic problems on which the campaign centered could be quickly solved by either of the major candidates, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his immediate predecessor, Gough Whitlam...
...sure, on lesser occasions they can be bolder. On that same weekend Mike Wallace, who is skilled at off-balance questions that evoke unexpected answers, was asking a CIA witness: "You're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" Barbara Walters once felt entitled to ask the President-elect on-camera if he and Rosalynn would share a White House double bed (Carter, being a populist, didn't say it was none of her business, or the public...
HARVARD is one of the few major educational institutions that does not appoint a board of trustees. Instead, alumni annually elect five Overseers, each of whom serves a six-year term on the 30-person board. Recent alumni voting patterns show a sensitivity to the social, educational and political challenges Harvard has had to meet since the late '60s. Educators, scientists and government officials now serve on the board alongside financiers and industrialists; women and blacks share in decisions that were once exclusively the prerogatives of white...