Word: votes
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Cambridge's suit alleges that the state law, which allows large property holders to demand a three-quarters vote of the city council before any zoning changes can be implemented, is unconstitutional because it gives the University unequal representation in city decision-making...
...organize." Based in Washington, her group is spending about $1 million this year in a drive to raise funds, expand its field operations and enlarge membership beyond the present 65,000. It has distributed some 200,000 postcards bearing the message, "I'm pro-choice and I vote...
Somoza was also losing on the diplomatic front. In Washington, the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected a U.S. proposal for an inter-American peace-keeping force to be dispatched to the strife-torn land. Nonetheless, in a 17-to-2 vote from which the military governments in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile and Uruguay abstained, the OAS approved a resolution calling for "the immediate and definitive replacement" of Somoza's regime. The resolution cleared the way for the rebel junta to gather more support from anti-Somoza forces both inside and outside the country...
...charging that he had been illegally excluded from a training program for higher paying skilled jobs, such as electrician and repairman, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. Though Weber won in two lower courts, he lost in the high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether or not it has had discriminatory job practices in the past, a company can use affirmative-action programs to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in employment without fear of being challenged...
...coin is an eleven-sided dollar bearing a likeness of Susan B. Anthony, the 19th century suffragist leader, whose drive for women's rights at the ballot box led to the enactment in 1920, 14 years after her death, of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the vote nationwide...