Word: electivity
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...selection of Russell ended the second-longest mayoral impasse in the city's history. The longest impasse lasted from January 1 to April 23, 1948 and required 1,321 separate ballots to elect Mayor Michael Neville...
Daughter of the imprisoned president-elect of Nigeria and his recently-assassinated wife. Abiola speaks at university, local and state legislature meetings about the situation in her home country whenever the organizations have related resolutions pending. At Harvard, that means urging the University to divest from companies such as Shell Oil that support the regime in Nigeria...
...Democracy stands or falls on a mutual trust--government's trust of the people and the people's trust of the governments they elect...
...federal income taxes for District residents. This idea makes sense because people here have no real representation in Congress and pay the highest combined local and federal taxes in the U.S. But you can almost hear the lawmakers chortling at the very idea that people dumb enough to re-elect Barry deserve a tax break...
...role of those in the middle--perhaps 6% to 7% of the electorate--has not previously had the same importance because this is the first time Israel will directly elect its Prime Minister. The makeup of the undecided group reflects every class and ethnicity, but Gadish's ambivalence is broadly shared. "Peres is far-sighted, which is important," he says. It bothers him, though, that the Prime Minister has never personally experienced combat in a country where war is an enduring threat. "What's missing is the quality of action, and the hard questions in Israel are still security questions...