Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compromise bill, tentatively scheduled for floor vote tomorrow, would not require employers to pay overtime rates to workers. Employees could not, however, be penalized for taking...
Three-time challenger State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty will vote at 8:30 a.m. before sweeping through the city's polling places later...
...present law under which the victor in the California primary -undoubtedly Reagan -would automatically win all of California's 168 delegates to next year's G.O.P. convention. The anti-Reagan forces would like to revise the law so that if no candidate got 50% of the primary vote, the huge California delegation would be proportionately divided among the winner and the losers. Reagan supporters remain blithely convinced that however the matter is resolved, their man can win the nomination...
...despite the emotional uproar over the nationalists' release, the pro-independence forces have never won more than 19% in an election-their last tally, in 1976, was less than 7%. As for his Administration's feelings about Puerto Rican statehood-pro-statehood forces won 48% of the vote in the last election -Carter told the congressional caucus dinner last week: -"I would support whatever decision is made by the people of Puerto Rico...
Some details, including the precise size of the wage increase, were withheld until the settlement could be reviewed by officers of the GM locals, meeting in Detroit this week. A local-by-local ratification vote by all members should be completed within ten days...