Word: vote
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...What Harvard needs is a woman president," said Bettina H. Harrison, who earned a degree from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in 1940, in a lighter moment during the club's discussion of its alma mater's future. "I nominate myself." "And I'll vote for you," laughed Marie M. Costello...
...taxes was tough. Householders across Ulster will be checking the fine print on the 75-page Northern Ireland peace accord Tuesday, as several hundred thousand glossy copies of the deal drop onto doormats. It?s the beginning of a British government campaign to encourage people in the province to vote in next month?s referendum -- a campaign that stops short of calling for a ?yes? vote. ?The dominant political slogan here for a long time has been ?Ulster Says No,? so it can be counterproductive to just come out and say it,? said a Northern Ireland Office spokesman...
...fight--and it is still a fight--has got easier in the past few years as the government has become more aware of the environment. World leaders, from U.S. Vice President Al Gore to Brazilian Senator Marina Silva, are building constituencies around the green vote. "They know that the remarkable strength the environment has in opinion polls today can only translate into the polling place in the next century," says Duane Silverstein, executive director of the Goldman Foundation in San Francisco, which hands out annual $100,000 prizes to environmentalists. As a result, environmentalism can expect to attract more Mitrauds...
...maybe, and despite all the well-publicized gains, it just wasn't our century. American women only got the vote in 1920 (and a rest room near the Senate chambers only in 1992). For most of the past 98 years, much of the world's female population has been voteless, voiceless, illiterate, ground down by toil and sexist restrictions. When I griped to my daughter about the shortage of our kind among the top 20 leaders, she sighed at my paleofeminist pique: "But, Mom, it's just the 20th century. You know, the bad old days...
...Women in the U.S. get the vote...