Word: steals
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...fears of vote fraud, it may be difficult--but hardly impossible--for anyone to steal enough to matter. Paper ballots and sealed boxes will be used at 93,000 polling places, where 107.5 million people are eligible to vote. All parties have the right to station observers to watch the voting and the counting. The results will be passed to 2,722 territorial commissions, then to 89 regional headquarters and finally to the Central Election Commission in Moscow, under observation at each stage...
MOSCOW: Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign has turned to scare tactics as the election nears. On Thursday, Yeltsin's top political aide warned that Gennadi Zyuganov, the Communist Party leader and leading presidential candidate, was plotting to steal the election by voter fraud and threatening a civil war. Although anti-Communist scare tactics have long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent...
...buying votes is common the world over, so is the attempt of one politician to steal his rival's thunder. Yeltsin began his campaign by promising he would not "deviate from [his reforms] a single centimeter. A halt or any attempt to reverse them," he said ominously, "would deal a crushing blow to the country from which it might never recover." But the officials most closely associated with his reforms have been fired, and more than once Yeltsin has said he is still "for reforms, but not at any price; I am for correcting the course...
...respect as a great power and constant reminders that Yeltsin's reforms have worked only for a few, the class called New Russians who own Mercedes and patronize expensive restaurants and nightclubs. "Russians have only three rights today," Zyuganov routinely intones in a surefire applause line: "The right to steal, the right to drink and the right not to be responsible...
STRIPTEASE (June 28). It's not Showgirls, the trailer is at pains to tell you; it's Get Shorty: a slapsticky gangster comedy, but with plucky, bosomy single mom Demi Moore. And without Travolta. Burt Reynolds may steal scenes as a randy Congressman, but that's not why Columbia paid Moore $12.5 million for the film. Why do we get that sinking feeling...