Word: electivity
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...proposal will now be reviewed by the council's ordinance committee which may elect to refer it to the full council for a vote, according to Lisa Yanakakis, chief of staff to Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay...
...long time people in Taiwan didn't even have the right to elect their president or the mayor of Taipei or Kaohsiung, " said Parris Chang, a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University...
...Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) members prepare to elect their top-ranking officials tonight, three of the highest positions are uncontested...
...STODGHILL II, TIME's midwest bureau chief, traveled last week from his Chicago base to Minnesota, where he met with Governor-elect and former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura. Stodghill interviewed Ventura two days after the election and discovered the unlikely victor still in a state of shock. "I don't think he's given much thought to what he'll do next," says Stodghill. "But it will be a thrilling experiment to watch--to see a year from now what compromises he'll need to make to be an effective leader." Stodghill, who came to TIME last year from Business...
...What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...