Word: fewest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Minister and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra state. But he gave up on him (too many political enemies), passed over Interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda (lackluster), and ruled himself out on the ground that he speaks neither Hindi nor English. Increasingly, Kamaraj found that the person with the fewest serious enemies, the widest reputation and the most attractive personality was Indira Gandhi. Nor was the lady shy. "I will do what Mr. Kamaraj wants me to," she told reporters. Her main competition came from former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, who threatened to make a fight...
...preferance. A pre-determined quota (for the city council, it's one tenth the total vote plus one) of the vote is needed for election. Men who have enough "number one" votes are automatically declared elected; their surplus ballots are then redistributed and the ballots of those with the fewest "number one" votes are also redistributed to those second on the list. The process continues until the proper number of office holders receive the quota...
Serving his first year as a Master, Chalmers has advocated changes in the old House assignment plan. Kirkland House, which has for several years had the fewest applications under the mandatory three-choice system, has been a center for discontent with the process, and two members of the committee have close ties to Kirkland...
...poll of political scientists, published in the American Political Science Journal, recently, showed that "behaviorism and general politics" was considered the most significant of several divisions of political science--even though fewest of those polled considered themselves to be working in this area. Yet it is this field which is largely neglected at Harvard...
...astounding success of the California initiative could put ideas into other people's heads elsewhere. A united front of gluemakers, for example, might collect enough votes to ban the manufacture of Scotch tape. Chrysler could war on General Motors. Whichever collected the fewest votes would die a corporate death...