Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spectators may lean against a railing to watch as Election Commissioners inspect and stamp each ballot by first choices and by precinct. The entire process is usually completed and published by Friday afternoon. Tallies are broken down by individual candidates and by precinct...
...there is one likely future challenger to Jiang it is Qiao Shi, 71, chairman of the National People's Congress and a member of the Politburo's inner standing committee. Though the Congress has always been a rubber stamp for the party, Qiao is making a serious effort to turn it into a functioning legislature--and in the process use it as a power base. Some experts believe Qiao has liberalizing tendencies...
...suggest saying, "Ricky, instead of sex tonight, why don't you work on your stamp collection?" Heroic individual self-denial is not viable long-term adolescent policy. What might work, however, would be an entire context of abstinence, a culture of abstinence: what philosophy would call "enlightened abstinence, rightly understood...
...Even funeral ceremonies wear the stamp of caste," he said...
...fight crime, provide sanitation, repair roads and administer dozens of other basic services would be endangered. The federal housing program that might have helped the Little Boy family would be cut 67%. The Agriculture Department's food program for Indians is scheduled to be folded into the food-stamp system, to the Indians' disadvantage. The advocates fear that the cuts will not just shatter the dreams of individual Native Americans like Little Boy but also cripple Washington's efforts over the past 20 years to encourage tribal self-reliance and send Indians spinning into a void of isolation and poverty...