Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialist regime has been holding its own in most public polls, and Mitterrand's personal prestige scores consistently high in the surveys. IFOP pollsters determined last month that in a presidential runoff, Mitterrand would defeat Giscard 55% to 45%, a better showing than Mitterrand's 52% in 1981. A rather more critical-and realistic-sounding in March, however, went the other way, when voters in cantonal elections across the country gave 215 additional local seats to center-right candidates and also handed them control of 58 of 95 provincial councils...
...Mitchell, a cotton farmer from Wolfforth, Texas, has installed an experimental center-pivot sprinkler that, instead of spraying outward, gently drops water directly into the planted furrows, thereby reducing evaporation. Sophisticated laser-guided land graders can now almost perfectly flatten the terrain so that water is not wasted in runoff. Electrodes planted in the fields can measure soil wetness and determine exactly when water is needed. Today, these techniques are rarities, but they may soon be routine. As Kansas Cattle Feeder Harold Burnett puts it: "Water misers" will last longer. But even the stingiest will go under if neighbors...
...university system would accept union representation, and if so, which union. The principal alternatives were the more traditional Congress of Faculty Associations (C.F.A.) and the more militant United Professors of California (U.P.C.). When the faculty ballots were counted last week, the unions were virtually tied and headed for a runoff. But in a resounding 80% return, the Cal State faculty voted to become the largest faculty ever to unionize...
Alfred F. Ferullo, director of environmental quality at the MDC said sewage treatment plants have made great improvements in the water quality, but high bacteria counts caused by storm water runoff and general urban pollutants will probably keep the water below federal swimming standards. The MDC has concentrated its cleanup efforts against the major cause of pollution--sewage overflow from Boston's antiquated sewer system, he added...
...instead dwelt on which of the two major candidates was more Latin: Mayor Maurice Ferre, or Manolo Reboso, who took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Reboso courted the votes of Cubans, while Ferre made his strongest pitches to Anglos and blacks. The results of last week's runoff election show just how bitterly Miami is polarized. Reboso drew 70% of the Cuban vote, while Ferre attracted an astounding 95% of the black vote (the pair split the Anglo vote about evenly). The Anglos were so alienated by the race that only 38% of those eligible to vote bothered...