Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democracy Party, is expected to press Caramanlis' policies while the Premier stays on in Parliament to mold the party's power and discipline. Then, perhaps a year from now, Tsatsos is expected to resign his five-year term, allowing the New Democracy majority in Parliament to elect Caramanlis to the office...
That scenario is perfectly legal under the new constitution, which allows a two-thirds majority in Parliament to elect a replacement President to a full term. To Greece's parliamentary opposition, led by the Center Union-New Forces Party's George Mavros, it seems tailor-made for the paternalistic, De Gaulle-like Caramanlis, as do other articles in the document. Some of the most controversial provisions...
...find their major metaphor right at the heart of the country music scene and the people who create all those tunes about broken hearts and long lonesome roads. One suspects that what attracted Altman and Tewkesbury to C. & W. was both its audience ("These are the people who elect the President," a political advance man comments early in the film, with just a trace of disdain) and its tradition. Country-and-western basically dresses up folk music in rhinestones and spangles, making hay out of Americana. A lot of it is slick and sweet, and its sanctimony can curdle...
DuBois entered the Boylston prize-speaking contest in 1890 "because I needed the money" and came away with second prize. His friend Clement Morgan, also black, won first prize, and DuBois helped organize a small revolt in his class to elect Morgan Class Day speaker, breaking an unwritten rule which had traditionally reserved this distinction for students from fashionable Back...
Harvard's baseball and lacrosse teams went to the polls yesterday to elect the captains who must try to put their squads on the championship trail next year. Second baseman Barry Cronin earned the baseball title while Kevin McCall and Bruce Bruckmann will share the honor in lacrosse...