Word: voting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inform CUE student members that their lengthy committee debates were pointless. Steven C. Gold '81, a CUE student member says, "What annoys me is the way we found out about it--entirely hearsay. No one bothered to tell us." James Henderson '80, another CUE student member, says the Council vote took CUE by surprise. He says they were led to believe the Council would support their effort to make the existing study abroad plan more flexible. But Henderson says he realizes now the Council "has pulled the rug out from under...
...comparisons are to be made between Harry Truman and Jimmy Carter, it can be said that both were businessmen, Christians and unpopular in polls. Truman gets more popular and more quotable each year among people who didn't vote for him or wouldn't have...
...vote of 10 to 5, the Foreign Relations Committee rejected a motion proposed by Glenn to delay action on the treaty. Late this month the committee is expected to endorse the pact; there are eight sure "ayes" and possibly as many as twelve. The only question is how many amendments will be added by the committee and how damaging they will be. Full Senate debate is expected to begin some time in November. Majority Leader Robert Byrd feels that the treaty will gain support if the debate is televised and the public becomes acquainted with the basic issues...
...concrete terms, the weekend vote -held in 67 Florida counties, from the rural panhandle to the posh Gold Coast-was a meaningless preliminary to an equally meaningless straw vote that will be held in mid-November to sample presidential preference. None of the rivals will collect a single vote good for the 1980 nomination; the March primary will determine that. Yet the practical irrelevance of the exercise did not keep the forces of President Carter or Senator Edward Kennedy from spending extravagantly. "Florida for Kennedy" will have laid out $175,000, Carter $250,000. What they hoped...
...since the turnout had been forecast at only about 40,000 of the state's 2.8 million Democrats and, as Kennedy Operative Diane Abrams put it, "One bus may well make the difference." Not only buses but vans, cars and even funeral-home limousines were chartered for the vote. The Carter team claimed an early victory: 500 to 600 buses to the Kennedy camp...