Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Workers redistributed the second-choice votes on ballots cast for Fitzgerald, David Kennedy and David Blackman yesterday, as an afternoon that had looked gloomy for Koocher at the start grew progressively brighter...
...pulled many more second-choice ballots from Kennedy and Fitzgerald than I expected," Koocher said last night after his victory was announced...
...votes, both from tenants and students, followed closely the CCA and Rent Control Task Force slates. Cambridge's complex proportional representation system makes it easy to guage slate loyalty. Under this system, surplus votes and votes for candidates eliminated from the race are redistributed to the second-choice candidates. Among Sullivan's surplus, 96 per cent went to other supporters of rent control, an astonishingly high percentage...
Except for the marvels of split end Richie Horner, it had been a lackluster afternoon, with two cellar-dwellers fighting an emotional, scrappy battle for a rare victory. But Harvard's 41-26 win over Pennsylvania's Quakers was a win all the same, only the second this year for the Crimson and eighth straight loss this season for the winless Philadelphians...
...second play from scrimmage, Crimson quarterback Burke St. John mishandled the snap and coughed up the ball to Penn's Tom Kearny. Seven plays and 28 yards later, Ron Gray took a Doug Marzione handoff from one yard out to give Penn the lead. John Dwyer's kick with 3:45 gone in the quarter put Penn...