Word: stepping
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...just about as bad as the pollsters had predicted. According to preliminary estimates, some 80 million Americans, or under 54% of the 150 million voting-age citizens in the U.S., took the trouble to step into balloting booths. The turnout in 1972, when the outcome was a foregone conclusion, was 55%. By contrast, 91% of the electorate recently cast ballots in West Germany and 90% in Sweden...
Manhattan Adman Paul Hartnett went a step further. "I consider it my duty as a good citizen not to vote," he declared. "If 60% of the country did not vote, it might shake up the political process, and that would be fine because it needs shaking up." His reasoning: "If the people who voted for Nixon because they didn't like McGovern had not voted at all, Nixon would have won by a much smaller margin and might have behaved differently as President...
...course work, an increase in minority student admissions to mitigate the loneliness and alienation, for law schools to take more public and publicized stands on civil rights and other social issues. As they began to voice their own confusion, it was almost as if the joy of that step--that one true step--was too enormous to keep to themselves. Their demands often sounded to the keen ear like urgent pleas to share their newly discovered needs--those needs which, if fulfilled, could open the path to real self-discovery. It is this edge of minority student demands that caused...
After the vote Fox thanked CHUL for taking "an unpopular step, but one that in the long run will ease conditions in the Houses substantially...
...snail's pace seems an apt metaphor for Tanin's plans to delay transition back to "full democracy" for at least eight years. Meanwhile, NARC's military bosses will remain as Thailand's real rulers, ready to step in if any civilian regime falters...