Word: surpluses
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Candidates win their seats by accumulating enough votes to reach a quota determined by a complicated formula. Once candidates reach a quota, their surplus votes are redistributed to the other candidates on the ballot...
...campaigning for other people on the same slate, candidates are able to direct the transfer of their surplus votes to similarly minded candidates who will support them on the council...
...supplying all those Croatian soldiers with U.S. Army gear? Washington is barred by a U.N. resolution from supporting either side, but news footage clearly shows the Croatians wearing nearly complete American battle dress. Fatigues are available in U.S. Army surplus stores, priced at $66 for a field jacket, $7 for a helmet. In August, U.S. Customs investigators arrested members of a secret Croatian-support group as they tried illegally to buy Stinger and Redeye antiaircraft missiles, night-vision goggles and other American combat goods. Seeking assault rifles, members of the group simply walked into Doug's Sport and Gun Shop...
Despite the presence of the standard lime-green army surplus shower curtains we all have, there is always a rather large, cold, deep, slimy, bacteria-ridden puddle in front of my shower. It's rather gross, to say the least. However, unlike Moses and his pals, there's no deity around to part the waters...
...clearly revealed than in the unconscionable exploitation of Anita F. Hill. That these senators and their agents perceive Thomas to be a threat to the republic seems to justify for them their abusive and destructive tactics. Their high minded political passions notwithstanding, they illustrate the old dictum that a surplus of virtue is more dangerous than a surplus of vice, because a surplus of virtue is never subject to the constraints of conscience...