Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic majority in Congress, the abortion-rights battle is set to boil again when the Congress begins considering Clinton's health-reform legislation this week. The political war reflects the public's ambivalence: a majority of Americans favor a woman's right to choose but wish she would elect to have the baby. "Most view abortion as a privacy matter," explains White House pollster Stan Greenberg. "But most abhor the act and are opposed to using tax dollars for abortions for those who can't pay for them...
...been up to that point, and I was genuinely ashamed of myself. All I seemed to care about was my resume, about my own individual career, and not about public service. All this in spite of how much I always blabbed about how government can work if we elect the right people...
Anjalee C. Davis '95, the Harvard campus coordinator for the Salerno campaign, said about 25 undergraduates have volunteered over the last few days, contributing to an effort to elect the city's first woman mayor. Students will work at phone banks tommorrow and attend the "big party" tomorrow night, she said...
...keep that majority, the Civic Association will need to elect a new member to the council to replace Wolf. This summer, the association endorsed architect Kathy Born, lawyer Katherine Triantafillou and Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association head John R. Pitkin. All three can rely on the Civic Association's institutional muscle making it somewhat easier for at least one of them to gain a spot on the council...
...well-educated citizens of Pennsylvania-13 surely knew this. What could have possessed them to elect Democrats, even narrowly...