Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to turn the elections into something of a referendum on the issue, the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the official slate...
Macias' break came when the postconviction phase of his case was assigned to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- one of the nation's largest and wealthiest corporate law firms. Douglas Robinson, a partner in the firm's Washington office, had volunteered with the American Bar Association to take a capital case, and he was randomly assigned to Macias. Robinson and a team of Skadden lawyers and paralegals went at the Macias case the way they would that of a private client. They spent money ($11,599 just for expert psychological testimony); they ran down leads (a partial eyewitness was located...
...many of those years--including the last six--this liberal political group has dominated Cambridge politics, offering a platform of "good government" and a slate of pro-rent control candidates for the city council and school board...
...Having him not run means there's a seat to be filled," Duehay says. "I think that until we get full knowledge of the entire slate of the city council candidates, it's very hard to know how hard that makes...
Dickerson states that the HRC did not pad the membership rolls in order to have a certain far-right slate elected in club elections last February. But when the HRC's membership list is inspected and a great number of members are found to be roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends and otherwise politically apathetic members, one has to wonder whether or not the HRC's elections were conducted in an upright manner. Moreover, when some of these roommates and dormmates are reputed to have claimed to have only paid half of club dues in order to vote, the integrity of the entire...