Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although all the votes have been cast inCambridge's fall 1989 election, the contest isstill far from over. Because Cambridge uses anarcane system of proportional representation forCity Council and School Committee elections,election officials count all ballots by hand--aprocess which can take as long as a week...
...sole congressional seat contestedyesterday, early returns from Texas put Houstoncity council member Anthony Hall and state Sen.Craig Washington far out front in an 11-way raceto succeed the late Rep. Mickey Leland. NeitherDemocrat was gaining 50 percent of the vote neededto avoid a runoff...
When such broad discretionary power is granted, arbitrary police actions are the inevitable result. So far, in those instances where Israeli police officers in the occupied territories have been invested with powers of arrest on such vague grounds, charges have been eventually brought against only 3 percent of those arrested...
...abortion war, officers of Harvard/Radcliffe Students for Choice say that with less than one week to go before the Second National Mobilization for Women's Lives, only half the number of Harvard representatives that participated in last year's march have signed up to go to the capital. Thus far only six busloads of students are scheduled to join the Harvard contingent on Sunday, as compared to 11 last spring...
...many people understand how the ElectoralCollege works?" he asks. "That one doesn't workvery well as far as I'm concerned. PR is muchbetter...