Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clean up what has become the nation's No. 1 air-pollution problem, California officials have taken decisive action against the primary source of the trouble: the unfettered use of fossil-fuel-burning private vehicles in a city that has long been in love with the automobile. By a vote of 10 to 2, the directors of the south coast air- quality-management district, a regional agency with authority over Los Angeles, last week adopted a sweeping 20-year antipollution plan. It will not only drastically curtail automobile use in the Los Angeles basin but also convert virtually all vehicles...
...Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation in the legislative council of the country's financial capital...
...Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...
...gets worse. Another student, overhearing our exchange, asked Chodacki if he could vote again. She told him, "Not if you ask me. But if you just...
...search for a Radcliffe president this week. Although they admit that Yale Professor of Psychology Judith Rodin removed her name from the list of candidates late in the search process, they now say she was never actually offered the post. Their rationale: Until the Board of Trustees votes to approve an offer, it is not official. Of course, the Board doesn't vote until a candidate has said she will accept the post...