Word: ticket
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...them to feel optimistic about forcing a second round of voting if she cannot obtain the necessary percentage to win outright in a first round in the October 28 polls. "It is clear Cristina is the weaker candidate," said Senator Gerardo Morales, the vice-presidential candidate on Lavagna's ticket...
...signaling that an attack is expected imminently. All leave has been canceled for the intelligence services and security beefed up around iconic public buildings, at transport hubs, and big public events such as the annual Wimbledon tennis championships and today?s memorial Concert for Princess Diana. Scotland Yard warned ticket holders to expect delays and "to see an increase in police use of stop and search under the Terrorism Act? as a visible deterrence and disruptive tactic." Prime Minister Brown said "The first duty of the Government is the security and safety of all the British people...
...late 19th and early 20th centuries when Tammany Hall was the powerhouse of the state's big-city ethnic base. But the Republicans tapped New Yorkers too --Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Dewey--as did significant third parties: former President Millard Fillmore headed the anti-immigrant American Party ticket in 1856. Some New York candidates went straight from the campaign trail to the footnotes--Horatio Seymour, anyone?--but four New Yorkers managed to win eight presidential elections: Martin Van Buren (1836), Grover Cleveland (1884, 1892), Theodore Roosevelt (1904) and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest New York drought in American history...
...Shizuka Kamei confirmed that the party would ask Tokyo to help facilitate Fujimori's return from Chile so that he could campaign. (Adding to that suspicion, officials from the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan revealed this afternoon that Fujimori had approached them earlier asking to run on their ticket, only to be rebuffed.) According to the Japanese government, however, Fujimori will still be allowed to run even if he remains under house arrest in Chile - but if elected, he must appear before the Diet within seven days, or face a summons and an investigation. "Logistics and how he would...