Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ward 6. Precinct 3--Residents of Adams House, Apley Court, Claverly Hall, Divinity Hall, Eliot House, Hastings Hall, Kirkland House entries A-E, Lowell House, Quincy House, Winthrop House, and all freshman dorms vote at the firehouse near Memorial Hall...
...Ward 6. Precinct 4--Residents of Dunster House. Leverett House entries F and G, and Mather House vote at the recreation center in the Corporal Burns playground off Banks...
...lampposts, billboards, transit passes, police stations and concert posters. This weekend, for instance, Chicagoans will celebrate "Mayor Byrne's Labor Day Concert and Fireworks," the latest in a long line of personalized events. In this advertising campaign, even the city's name is sometimes omitted, as in "Precinct Headquarters, Jane M. Byrne, Mayor." Said an almost admiring official of the Better Government Association: "She's fiendishly clever." Maybe. Windy City residents, well aware of whose taxes are paying for all this publicity, have wryly proposed some additional labels. The Chicago Sun-Times last month pointedly called...
...first buy was on Thursday morning, March 11, at an apartment in New Town, a chic singles neighborhood. He chatted with his host, a cop from his precinct, and then got down to business, agreeing to buy ⅛ oz. of coke for $300. The conversation was recorded by a pair of miniature microphones fastened to Watson's chest. Eavesdropping in a van out side were Sandberg and Chandler. In a nearby car was IAD Officer Victor Howard, 37, who, like Watson, Chandler and all but one of the indicted dealers, is black...
...displayed little of the political savvy needed to wage an effective state-by-state ratification drive. Symbolically perhaps, Smeal showed great tenacity and faith but revealed little taste or talent for politicians or politics. In the early days activists did not seem to know how to find a precinct list or run a phone bank. Says Elaine Gordon of the Florida legislature: "We all tried to tell them how the process worked and the importance of things like raising money, but they didn't believe us. They thought that just being right would be enough...