Word: voted
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What is the World Trade Organization? Formed in 1995, it's a global coalition of 135 governments that makes the rules governing international trade in an increasingly global economy. The creation of those rules requires a unanimous vote, which means that agreeing on new rules takes years of extensive, often contentious trade negotiations...
...legislation put forward by Alexander A. Boni-Saenz '01 would have sent the matter directly to the student body in a campus-wide referendum, and so required only a majority vote...
...bill would attach the referendum to the presidential ballot later this month, along with a referendum to increase the council's term bill fee. For the referendum to be binding, at least as many students as voted in the first election of the school year must vote...
That's looking on the bright side. But the fiasco is important for more than what it does to the Jewish vote; it's important for what it says about Clinton's instincts. A nimble candidate would have found a way to respond quickly. And a strong campaign manager might have talked her out of the visit. But Clinton has no manager and is her own strategist. Faced with howling tabloids, she retreated behind the haughty protective screen of her First Ladyhood. "It is unfortunate," she sniffed, "that there are any questions about what was a very straightforward occasion...
...things wrong with the Gore campaign is that Gore chose to pay a feminist such as Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month so he can figure out how to act like a man [NATION, Nov. 8]. But the Vice President might really need to cultivate the women's vote, because at this rate he is surely going to lose the men's. GERALD PARTIDA Chino, Calif...