Word: vote
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...both funds, members meet weekly to make investment decisions. Members of the Charles River Fund invest and vote equally, while in the Cambridge World Fund, voting power is proportional to a member's share in the fund...
MAIL THAT AGAIN? Netizens, it seems, are no less gullible than the rest of us. This week the Justice Department was forced to debunk a widely circulated e-mail suggesting African Americans would lose the right to vote in 2007. A brief study of rumor and effect in cyberspace...
ELECTION CONCEDED. TO JAMES P. HOFFA, 57, for the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the hard-driving union his infamous father once ran. Though the vote count hadn't officially ended, challenger Tom Leedham conceded the election Saturday, effectively giving lawyer Hoffa the job. Hoffa lost a 1996 race that was later voided by federal monitors...
FRED TUTTLE Last summer Tuttle, 79, surprised Vermont when his semi-spoof run for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination resulted in a win. But it was truly an upset victory: Tuttle's wife Dottie had refused to vote for him and hoped aloud that Vermonters wouldn't send the retired Tunbridge dairy farmer to Washington. Well, the missus is happy again. Though he garnered 23% of the vote--quite a feat since he spent only about $250--Tuttle lost to incumbent Democratic Senator Pat Leahy. "I was proud of him," Dottie admits. Now Fred spends his days hanging...
...impeachment hearings. Gore came out swinging on Monday in defense of Clinton, urging Congress to keep the President in office. He also blasted House Republicans for abandoning the censure option. The "decision to reject compromise," said Gore, does "not give the members of Congress a chance to vote their conscience. It is not in keeping with the wishes of the American people...