Word: slates
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...riding, options-exercising CEO persona somewhere on the other side of this megadeal. The only flaw in this picture, frankly, is a fist-size interactive pager that is dancing between Levin's palm and his pocket. The pager chirps from time to time, and Levin pops it from its slate-gray plastic case, uses a thumbwheel to scroll through a few messages and then slips it back into its case. Occasionally, he pokes out a quick message on the device's Chiclet-size keys. Chirp. Pop. Click-click-click. It's almost a Macarena rhythm...
...Primaries use secret ballots, similar to those in general elections. Primary voters choose a slate of delegates who are affiliated with a particular candidate. In most states, those delegates sign a pledge to vote at the state convention for the candidate they represent...
...were worlds apart in personality and policy, but in truth they are strikingly similar; in crucial ways, their personalities and habits of mind tend to mirror each other, so that choosing between them can seem like picking a sweater from the J. Crew catalog: Do you want it in slate or charcoal...
...midst of grueling team practices and a challenging slate of games ahead, the team has wholeheartedly supported Delaney-Smith, who had surgery the week before Christmas and who will soon begin chemotherapy...
Monday's vote fell along party lines. The progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate of Born, Braude and Davis and unaffiliated progressive Decker supported Born, while the more conservative but still left-of-center Independent vote--Galluccio, Maher, Sullivan and Toomey--was split between Galluccio and Sullivan...