Word: voteless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. With justification-the Peterson Commission cited the need for such raises early this year-he figured that members of Congress deserved their first significant salary increase since 1969 to try to catch up with inflation. But he was convinced the raise would have been voted down if each legislator had been forced to take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code...
...Constance goes to prison under an assumed name-in order to be treated like her commoner sisters-she no longer seems a historical figure but a flesh-and-blood participant in that sad, violent, wholly romanticized period mislabeled the good old days, when men were men and women were voteless...
Despite the new law, however, thousands of citizens abroad are going to remain voteless. While 33 states make it relatively easy for such citizens to cast their ballots, many others have made the process discouraging. Among other things, they have announced that voters working in foreign countries could be liable for state income taxes. Now U.S. embassies and consulates abroad are fielding hundreds of bewildered and often bitter inquiries...