Word: voter
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Gaston Caperton, the former governor of West Virginia who revamped the state's education system despite voter opposition, led a workshop on education at the conference...
...screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants, as Fine Line president Ruth Vitale puts it, "movies that touch your heart, that make you pause, think, maybe pick up the phone and call your...
...past two months, the issue of low voter turnout has consumed public debate. It took 14 cartons of orange juice, six onions and several heads of broccoli to teach our group of 20-somethings possible reasons behind this growing political apathy. As participants in the nine-month long Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs, the 12 of us explore the world of public policy and self-governance through a series of internships, interviews and seminars. But it wasn't until we tried to cook for each other that we began to understand the true challenge of democracy. Given the responsibility...
Satvat predicted that a result of the discrepancy will be a drop in voter turnout, which was close to 45 percent in the initial election...
...with all the adoration "Chino" basks in on the streets, why is he taking such a hit in the polls? Since last January his approval ratings have dropped from the high 70s to the low 40s. Voter preference polls for the election in the year 2000 are worse: in the most recent national survey, Fujimori placed second, with only 26%, behind Lima Mayor Alberto Andrade. "I don't govern by popularity polls," Fujimori retorts...