Word: runoff
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...Klansman won a seat in the Louisiana legislature as a Republican and is running for the U.S. Senate; in spite of recent revelations that he once used a pseudonym to co-author a book that included explicit sexual techniques, he hopes to force a runoff with Democrat J. Bennett Johnston...
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young wanted to accomplish in Georgia what L. Douglas Wilder had in Virginia last year: become his state's first black Governor. But Young's dream went a-glimmering last week as lieutenant governor Zell Miller drubbed him in a runoff for the Democratic nomination, winning 62% of the vote...
Human activities have also disrupted the delicate natural systems that maintain water supplies. To obtain wood and clear land for homes and farms, mankind is chopping down forests at an unprecedented rate. But vegetation traps water, reducing runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies. Throughout the world, tree cutting has led to floods, mud slides and soil erosion during rainy seasons and acute water shortages during dry periods...
...expected, the ruling Communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party took advantage of superior organization and finances to rout the fledgling opposition. Of 799 candidates who survived the first round of voting, virtually all but 101 were Communists. The winners will compete this week in a runoff for 430 seats on the People's Great Hural, the national parliament...
Flattened musk turtle An Alabama reptile listed in 1987 because it was threatened by runoff from old coal mines. Local Congressmen claimed that protecting it could cost billions, but the ruckus died down when new mines were able to meet standards...