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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This feeling is spreading, to some extent, among politicians, lobbying groups and the public. In North Dakota, for example, a question appeared on the ballot earlier this month, calling for total controls on health care costs. Another instance is the recent Senate vote favoring hospital cost containment -- which passed contrary to earlier expectations, and in the face of opposition from the American Medical Association and hospital lobbies...

Author: By Suzanne Franks, | Title: The British Plan for Health | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

Daniel C. Esty '81, who lost by one vote in last Sunday's Democratic Club election for vice president, is contesting the results of that election on the basis that three of his opponent's votes were unconstitutional...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: Democratic Club Candidate Contests Election Results | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Winthrop resigned from his position as vice president when the student assembly elected him its chairman. The Democratic Club has already held two special elections to choose a new vice president. Esty won the first election, held in late October, by a margin of one vote. However, the results of that election were nullified because several non-members had voted. The club then elected Brad F. Artson '81 vice president in Sunday night's election, also by one vote...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: Democratic Club Candidate Contests Election Results | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...question about it. We have been active in creating Arab Area Committees to take care of such needs as roads, street lights, education and a variety of other things. These committees saw the benefit of this cooperation and were active in suggesting that people vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Thoughts of a Famous Mayor | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...vote came as a mild surprise. At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No for the Church of England | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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