Word: splits
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Davis's election, which culminated in the six-day process of hand-counting more than 19,000 ballots, ensures that the council will be evenly split between progressive Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates and conservatives endorsed by the Alliance for Change...
...news that the Internet is fast approaching mass-market proportions was well received on Wall Street, which has been gambling wildly on Internet-related stocks in recent months. Shares of companies with an Internet connection--any Internet connection--jumped sharply last week. America Online, which declared its third stock split in a year, closed up 12 3/4 points for the week, representing an increase of more than 470% in the past 12 months...
Reeves commands a loyal following among his supporters, who include "blacks, gays and whites across the city," and his surplus votes might be split in a variety of directions, according to former councillor William H. Walsh, who was forced off the council last spring after being convicted of embezzle ment charges...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
...somehow justified to remove a province from a federation on the decision of a mere half of its eligible voters. What of the other half? This case is interesting because it is not merely an academic argument: the uncanny behavior of Canadian voters produced a near 50-50 split, the vote being decided 50.6 percent "No" and 49.4 percent...