Word: swing
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Vellucci's swing vote is sufficient to keep about 15,000 apartment rents below market rate. But the CCA's ambition extends to a fifth Council seat. The organization wants to win votes on rent control that require two-thirds majorities, and to legislate without Vellucci's support...
Vellucci's swing vote is sufficient to keep about 15,000 apartment rents below market rate. But the CCA's ambition extends to a fifth Council seat. The organization wants to win votes on rent control that require two-thirds majorities, and to legislate without Vellucci's support...
...decisions were greeted with relief by school officials and disappointment by Fundamentalists. "If we continue pursuing change," said Alabama Plaintiff Douglas Smith, undaunted, "things may swing back the other way." Appeals to the Supreme Court are planned. But only two months ago the high court ruled 7 to 2 that Louisiana could not require public schools to teach "creation science." With last week's two new losses, the Fundamentalist strategy of using constitutional cases to restore religion to the school curriculum looks to be in tatters. "These two are the last of the coordinated and systematic attacks by a politicized...
...incident was fresh evidence that China's seesaw struggle between doctrinaire Communist hard-liners and pragmatic reformists had taken yet another swing. In recent months, the reformists had been gaining greater control over the economy. Now, however, the ideologues have apparently persuaded Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping that the party cannot afford to shelter those who snipe at its authority. Though Wu was the only intellectual whose departure has been confirmed, as many as four other liberal theoreticians and journalists have reportedly been asked to quit the party...
...privately with nearly all the 14 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, assuring the lawmakers that he would bring no prejudices to the court. Five Democratic committee members, however, are expected to vote against Bork, while five Republicans have declared their support. The three most likely swing votes: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Whatever the Judiciary Committee decides, the Bork nomination has become so controversial that the final battle over confirmation will take place in the full Senate...