Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barring a reversal in a vote review, the Democrats captured a seat that had been held by the late John P. Saylor, a Republican, for 24 years-hardly an encouraging sign to jittery G.O.P. vote seekers. Yet the margin of victory was so razor-thin-230 votes in a turnout of more than 121,000-that it offered little comfort to Democrats hoping that massive revulsion against Watergate will turn November's House and Senate races into a landslide victory for their party...
Though filling stations are closed on Sunday, as they are in most of Europe, expressways are as clogged with drivers as usual. On a recent Sunday, 10,000 cars ferried Tokyo's sporting set to the biggest turnout ever at the Nakayama Racecourse. The betting set a record of $44.3 million. "There's something unhealthy about the way they played it this year," observed one official at the Ginza offtrack betting center. That same day, 300,000 shoppers crowded the Mitsukoshi Honten, Tokyo's largest department store, to snatch up a record $8,900,000 worth...
...Princeton team, which handed Radcliffe its only defeat last year, is perenially strong because of the physical education requirement for girls, O'Conner said. This brings the team a greater turnout of players so it can develop more depth, she added...
Price and Orren agreed that the low voter turnout in the cities indicated a lack of confidence in government among the people. Both said they saw no indications of backlash against the Republican Party in these local elections...
...Voter turnout was down 12 per cent from two years ago despite the fact that voter registration has increased by almost 10 per cent during the same period...