Word: haring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because there were many viable candidates in this year's field, none received enough first-choice votes to reach the "quota" of 3215 required for election. Under the Hare system of proportional representation, candidates with the smallest vote totals are repeatedly retired from the race, and their ballots are redistributed to the remaining candidates according to voters' orders of preference...
Cleary: "Ugh. That makes it twice as tough. Oh, boy, it does terrible things to the hair line. Which reminds me of a joke. What do you call a bunch of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare line...
Cambridge uses the Hare proportional representation system, a method touted by John Stuart Mill as a means of enlarging "the marketplace of ideas" by ensuring minority representation...
...July 18, 1978, Jackson ignored Martin's instructions to bunt in a game. Jackson was suspended for five days. Martin continued to show anger at his star player and on July 23 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Martin said of Jackson and Steinbrenner: "One's a born liar; the other's convicted...
...quotidian hit Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald...