Word: voting
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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, in its first rulings on the drug-testing issue, upheld, by a vote of 7 to 2, the constitutionality of the Government regulations that require railroad crews involved in accidents to submit to prompt urinalysis and blood tests. The Justices also upheld, 5 to 4, urine tests for U.S. Customs Service employees seeking drug-enforcement posts. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "The court recognized that the Government can, and indeed should, take all necessary and reasonable steps to prevent drug use by employees in sensitive positions...
Hard-pressed New Yorkers have long maintained that there ought to be a law against their local government. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court agreed, ruling that the powerful eight-member board of estimate violates the constitutional principle of one person, one vote. The decision technically leaves the nation's largest city without a legally constituted government...
Whether his congressional colleagues regard him as a hero or a hothead -- there seem to be few opinions in between -- Newt Gingrich, 45, accomplished a feat last week that not many of them would ever have ever predicted. By a vote of 87 to 85, he was elected minority whip, the G.O.P.'s second-ranking leadership post, by House Republicans. Gingrich succeeds Wyoming's Richard Cheney, who left the House to become Secretary of Defense...
...Salvador's election, while fairer than some previous exercises, was nonetheless seriously flawed. Election-related violence took the lives of at least 30 civilians, including three journalists, two of them killed by army troops. Guerrilla forces effectively paralyzed public transportation and staged several attacks in outlying towns. The vote was thus held down not only by sympathy with the F.M.L.N. but also by fear...
Hightower, who heads a staff of 575 state workers, was elected to his post in 1982 and re-elected in 1986 with 60% of the vote. His foes realize they would be unlikely to whip him at the polls, so they want to abolish his job and replace it with a panel appointed by the Governor. Hightower forced the showdown two months ago, when he made the surprise decision to pass up a race for the U.S. Senate against Republican Phil Gramm and instead run for re- election in 1990. Then he promptly spurred a ruckus with his plan...