Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote by Central Committee members and alternates showed there is considerable opposition not only to Ligachev, but also to Politburo members closely linked to Gorbachev. Customarily such votes are unanimous, but the secret balloting used to chose deputies may have encouraged some to frankly express opposition to senior Kremlin figures...
...Ross alone in 1987: $4.5 million in salary and bonus) and corporate amenities like the six-bedroom Acapulco villa for entertaining movie stars. Siegel also apparently believes that Warner is being undervalued in the merger agreement. When the proposed deal came up before Warner's board for a vote, Siegel abstained, while all the other members approved. Time and Warner officials, who are trying to convince Siegel of the merger's merits, admit that he could take legal steps to delay the transaction, but they insist he cannot stop...
...Remember the Republicans' desperate desire to break the Democrats' choke hold on the Black vote...
Though Atwater claims the country has already "entered into a post-civil rights era; civil rights are not the driving force," racial politics are still with us. As demonstrated by the continuing southern white switch to the Republican Party and the heavy Black vote for civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, civil rights are still an issue...
...council vote was certainly a very good representation of student opinion on this matter," Bramson said...