Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LINDA BANUELOS, 20, a page in Chicago's First National Bank: "The slate is handed to you by the 'toppies'-Establishment people who don't give the average person a say at all. I'm just not convinced that voting will help-you're just voting for the Government...
...Muskie, who must win convincingly in his own backyard. Each candidate will need to carry one of the Midwestern states; Wisconsin is likely to be the major target. The Oregon primary is a key litmus. But most important is California; the winner there will carry the biggest delegate slate into the convention...
...permitted 100 stockholders or the owners of 1500 shares to nominate by petition a candidate for the Board of Directors. A maximum of 30 candidates could be nominated by this process, and their names and 100-word platforms would be listed on the proxy statement along side the management slate...
...first Campaign GM proposal would have permitted candidates for the Board of Directors to be nominated by petition and have their names listed alongside the management slate. It received 3.1 million votes (1.3 per cent of the total...
...pride in pragmatism often blurs its vision of the human values and obligations. Yet tradition counts. The America of Lincoln and Franklin, of Emerson and Whitman may assert itself, and your great country's innate radiant faith in democracy and Human Rights may well flash against the slate-colored wisdom of low-flying polities. The declaration of independence of Bangla Desh is most likely to arouse the people whose inspiring history is founded on the Declaration of American Independence. You will certainly enthuse your government to weigh between a technical sovereignty of a nation and a moral sovereignty...