Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supporters of De Gasperi's Christian Democrats candidly viewed the Pescara preview as a warning of the Front's Strength. Warned Risorgimento: "A typical town . . . that represents a good crosssection of the Italian population has given almost half its vote to the Front. . . . There can be little illusion that unless something is done, the national political elections will have similar results...
Ashida received 216 votes (five more than the required majority), while rose-wearing Yoshida got 180. The Diet's upper chamber voted the other way, 104-102; but under Japan's new constitution this was merely another nosegay for the loser: the vote in the lower house was the only one that counted...
...answer appeared to be an emphatic no. Last week the B.M.A. jubilantly announced that the results were "not so much a landslide as an avalanche" against Bevan. The vote: 40,814 against, 4,735 in favor...
...vote meant that British doctors, already patella-deep in socialized medicine, were not enthusiastic about getting in up to their necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes...
...spite of the no-confidence vote, Bevan was still confident that he had a good chance of corralling enough doctors to make the scheme work on schedule. He holds a powerful pounds & pence goad: the panel system ends July 5 and is superseded by the new act. Doctors will miss its steady income. They will still be free to practice privately, but they will have trouble finding many Britons willing to pay extra...