Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues which IRRC says most upset the banks this year involved proposals to eliminate pre-emptive rights (which give shareholders preferential treatment if a company issues new stock); to elect boards of directors in different classes serving staggered terms, instead of holding annual elections for all directors; and management proposals to raise the per cent of shareholder votes necessary for the approval of mergers and other business transactions...
...control a five-man majority on the council with varying degrees of success. After 30 unsuccessful ballots for mayor in January 1974, when the present council took office, two Independents, Walter J. Sullivan and Leonard J. Russell, joined forces with the liberal faction of the council to elect themselves mayor and vice-mayor, in exchange for their votes to replace then-City Manager John Corcoran with James L. Sullivan. Since that split, the independents have not been a really cohesive political force and no "Independent Slate" has surfaced in this fall's election...
Conquering Lion of Judah, King of Kings, Elect of God: in the end, the royal epithets had a hollow, mocking ring. Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, had wielded virtually absolute power for almost six decades-longer than any other contemporary head of state. But when he was finally deposed in September 1974 by the military leaders of the "creeping coup," which had been enveloping Ethiopia for seven months, the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) ruler was whisked away from his palace in a Volkswagen and imprisoned in a three-room mud hut. Only later was he moved to more...
...story about his homosexuality last winter: "I felt I was going to be much more comfortable in a situation where I wasn't going to be hiding what I am, enduring gossip behind my back." His heavily liberal constituency took the news calmly and is expected to re-elect him. For Elaine Noble, 31, the first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office (to the Massachusetts legislature in 1974), coming out was more difficult. It cost her her job as an advertising executive, her female lover, who was afraid to be seen with her, "and at least...
...Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President...