Word: vote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...councillors, who expected only to vote on technical amendments to the sale of Riverside Rd., were shocked when the issue turned out to be a new plan to resolved the Stop & Shop construction stalemate...
...This is not the way you dispose of public land," said Francis H. Duehay '55. "I cannot vote for this in the way its being presented...
...councillors remained unconvinced. "I would like to vote for this. But it doesn't smell too good," said Vellucci...
...said officers have a better chance of promotion in civilian life, 59% thought their boss was an officer, and 34% added that he continued to treat them like soldiers in the office. The cooler new military mood may also reflect the "feminization" of Switzerland. Women did not receive the vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says industrial psychologist Anita Calonder-Gerster. And their new prominence has not dissipated their hostility to the old-boy military system...
...After consulting with his delegation for 25 minutes, Adamec reconvened the group and agreed to virtually every request except the call for the immediate resignation of his government. Next day Czechs watched in amazement the first ever live-television broadcast of a session of the national parliament. By a vote of 309 to 0, the legislators struck down infamous Article 4 of the constitution, which enshrines the "leading role" of the Communist Party...