Word: electioneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RUS announced its new executive board yesterday after an uncontested election--a trend over the past few years.
Clark's shaky new government. In two by-elections last week, Conservative candidates were defeated, thereby shaving the Tories' working majority in the 282-member House of Commons to a razor-thin one vote. The Conservatives have narrowly turned back three recent votes of noconfidence, but it is...
Botha has also run into heated opposition from the verkrampte (rigid) wing of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party. The solemn, humorless Prime Minister has been heckled as a "Judas" by Afrikaner audiences. In four parliamentary by-elections last month, more than half the eligible voters boycotted the balloting...
Nothing could have been less congenial to the spirit of modernism than Sargent's work, with its showcase view of human character. By the '30s, few writers were ready to endorse the social attitudes that his paintings reflect-the belief in a natural ruling class, a government above...
"The old friends of consumer protection such as Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and George McGovern are largely in hiding or otherwise engaged running for election.