Word: majority
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...amendment would also need the approval of 38 state legislatures, and it is impossible to predict how they would react. Generally, there has been resistance within smaller states to major electoral change. By abandoning the present method of giving a candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
That has been Barry Jr.'s way ever since he graduated from Arizona State University in 1962 with a major in business administration and a harvest of wild oats. "He was a bright kid," recalls one professor. "But it would be asking too much of the boy to be a serious student when he had his father's name and those same good looks. And the girls were crazy about...
...knowing the recent bloody strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
Everett, an experienced climber and the first American to scale the four major peaks of North America, had one serious gap in his expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month...
...years since U.S. forces stormed ashore on Okinawa in the final major battle of World War II, the island has been transformed into the equivalent of the world's largest aircraft carrier. There are 45,000 American servicemen now based on Okinawa. From sprawling Kadena Airbase, huge B-52 jets roar out nearly every day on bombing missions over South Viet Nam. Much of the island has come to resemble a particularly vulgar version of American suburbia, and U.S. spending now accounts for 60% of Okinawa's $644.4 million G.N.P. If the U.S. were to pull out, Okinawa...