Word: redrawn
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...Negro plaintiffs sought the right to look at county voting records; a higher court had already ordered that such requests be honored as a matter of course. The course, in Clayton's court, ran four years, and was potholed by rulings like the one requiring documents to be redrawn because...
...only the agent of destruction, it is also the precursor of change. With the erasure of the Arab military machine, Israel has indelibly redrawn the political map of the Middle East. Until the Arabs, Russians, and the United Nations grasp this reality, a peacful settlement in the Middle East will remain illusory...
...Oregon voluntarily reapportioned both houses-but in 1961. Alaska, Hawaii and South Carolina have not reapportioned their lower houses, nor Massachusetts its senate. In all the others, the lines have been redrawn...
...national level, G.O.P. candidates won only 40% of the seats in the House of Representatives during the 1962 mid-term election, even though they collected 48% of the votes. Last year, after nearly two-thirds of the states had redrawn their congressional districts to make them more nearly equal in population, Republicans increased their share of House seats to 43% while increasing their share of the vote only to 48.3%. Roughly a dozen states are still at work reapportioning their congressional districts; only last week, a federal court threw out a 1966 redistricting plan adopted by New York and ordered...
Logue condemned as "irresponsible and misleading" a Massachusetts Board of Education proposal that the Boston School Committee alleviate racial imbalance by redrawing school district lines. He suggested that a shifting population pattern would require the district lines to be redrawn quite frequently...