Word: runoff
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...adopted a creative counter-strategy--it ran its own delegates in House elections, and if they won, they promptly resigned. When Dudley House held its election, it came down to a runoff between Fernandez and an SDS member. Fernandez won, and headed for the final hurdle to becoming a member--the green marble lottery...
With six candidates in the field, there was a clear possibility of a runoff, and no Portuguese was ready to count on political stability. A majority for Eanes might express a public desire in that direction, but a sympathy vote for Soares Carneiro might just as easily demonstrate that the country wanted to preserve the cohesion that the dead leader had established. As for the post of Prime Minister, there seemed to be no one ready to fill Sá Carneiro's shoes. His Deputy Prime Minister and acting successor, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, is a frosty Christian Democrat...
...member of British Parliament, and assorted congressional aides and staffers. Several of the graduate students in the class have attempted runs at elective office, including Chet Edwards, a second-year student at the Business School. Edwards ran for Texas' Sixth District Congressional seat in 1978, and missed the runoff after the Democratic primary by 185 votes out of 85,000 cast. "From a 'yellow dog' Democratic district (where it's said that a yellow dog could win an election if he was listed on the Democratic ballot), Edwards says that his near-miss at age 26 shows that a young...
...Democrat is a man, the Republican is a woman, but there ends the major difference between the contestants for the Florida Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Richard Stone. William Gunter, 46, who sank Stone in a primary runoff, has been a strong consumer advocate as state insurance commissioner since 1976. He ordered auto insurance companies to cut their premiums by more than $125 million. Republican Nominee Paula Hawkins, 53, earned a similar reputation as a member of the state's public service commission from 1972 to 1978 by voting against utility rate increases...
...report, commissioned by New York Governor Hugh Carey, is sharply at odds with preliminary investigations. These had indicated that the rate of miscarriages, birth defects, asthma, and nerve disorders was significantly higher among people living near the runoff from the leaking dump site than among other residents. One researcher, hired by the EPA, claimed to have found a high incidence of chromosomal abnormalities. Such defects have been linked with spontaneous abortions, birth defects and cancer...