Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elections are bi-partisan, and there are no primaries. In the general election, voters list all city council and school committee candidates in numerical order, starting with one for their first choice. Voting is probably the easiest part of the proportional system, as the polls are open for only one day and it usually takes at least two to hand count the ballots...
...G.O.P. perspective the House's performance rates "about three on a scale of one to ten." But he concedes that from the Democrats' point of view, "I'd have to give them a seven or eight." Overall, Rhodes' seven or eight seems closer to the mark than his partisan three...
...argued that the University should subsidize the PIRG in the interests of encouraging the free exchange of ideas, then it would be wrong to stop at just one partisan group. What about the Harvard Republicans, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, the Spartacus Youth League? The University should on this principle add $100 to students' term bills and distribute the proceeds to whoever has a cause to promote...
PROVDIENCE, R.I.--While figuring out how much change he owed a customer who had forked over $5 for a $1.97 purchase, the smock-clad counterman at The Butcher Shop on Elmgrove Street suddenly stopped and declared to a partisan Harvard audience here Saturday afternoon, "I've just got this feeling Brown's gonna lose...
Last week Republican Congressman James Quillen of Tennessee picked up the partisan attack where Rhodes had left off. Said he: "The House has no business inflicting higher oil prices on the American people in order to fulfill President Carter's campaign promises to the maritime unions." Sponsor Murphy replied that he and his supporters were only trying to salvage the U.S. merchant fleet, which has dwindled from 5,000 to 570 ships during the past three decades...