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First, they tally all the number one votes, and if any candidate makes the quota, he is immediately elected (something only Walter J. Sullivan can do). His surplus votes go to whoever the voter marked number two. Candidates on the bottom of the totals are eliminated, and the women keep redistributing the ballots until nine council and six school committee candidates make quota...
...survival of Indian society, and the safety of the unique Indian cultures, languages and people. With the abrogation of all these treaties by North American governments and the massacres of peaceful Indian nations, the reservations have become concentration camps surrounded by armed guards. Indian people are new fed surplus army rations, and live in migrant-type housing, which frequently has no running water or plumbing facilities. Stark tarred shacks adorn barren, dusty streets littered with bottles and soda cans...
Administrators also predicted that the University ended up with a very slight surplus in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977. Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, this week said he believes the University ran about $800,000 in the black...
Neither the roughly 6 per cent increase in the endowment nor the small surplus have smoothed all the furrows in financial foreheads...
...level of capital investment. Sluggish global economic growth and new technologies-the building of smaller cars, for example-have reduced worldwide demand for steel and left mills in Europe, Japan and the U.S. with excess capacity. The Europeans and Japanese have been trying to get rid of the surplus steel by selling it in the U.S.-and also to each other; Europeans complain about the Japanese invading their home markets. U.S. steel companies have a special problem: many of their mills are old and inefficient by European and Japanese standards, and they are burdened by high labor costs...