Word: precinct
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...does hawkishness seem so intemperate now? Two reasons, I suspect--one psychological and one political. The psychological reason has everything to do with Sept. 11. We now know that an attack on Iraq may lead to terrorist counterattacks. Even the business community, usually a fairly tough-minded precinct, seems jelly-kneed at the prospect. "I have never seen such unanimity on any foreign policy issue," says Leslie H. Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who made a speaking tour of mostly business audiences in the Midwest and on the West Coast in December. "They want a smoking...
...Spain, Italy, Lebanon and Yugoslavia. But in Lott's youth, as now, blacks numbered only about 18% of the area's population, and whites didn't feel as threatened as they did in the black-majority counties of the Mississippi Delta. While most neighborhoods were segregated, the largest black precinct was smack in the middle of town, and the races mixed easily on the streets and in factories, where jobs were usually available to all. Lott recalls that "race just wasn't that big an issue for me growing...
Richard Harding Sr., the precinct warden, has been working as an election official since...
...election warden in Gund Hall, Bill Willard oversaw voting yesterday in Ward 7, Precinct 3, which includes all the Yard dorms...
Late in the day, after leaving instructions at the Quincy precinct for his fellow Republican poll watchers, Silvestri changed into a suit and left for Romney headquarters, located near the Alewife T station...