Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compared with about 70% of all white households. Blacks manage the department stores that once rejected their patronage. They make decisions at corporations where once they worked only on assembly lines. They preside as mayors of cities and represent congressional districts where they were formerly denied the right to vote. They live in exclusive suburbs that once excluded them and send their children to leading schools and universities that once blackballed them...
Tower's nomination was killed on Thursday on a near party line vote of 53-47 in the Democratic-controlled Senate. He was defeated by concerns over his drinking habits, his relationships with women and his work as a paid defense industry consultant after leaving government service...
Cheney's name had not figured in any of the speculation that arose in the hours after Tower's rejection. But the nomination quickly drew praise from the Senate, which will vote on his confirmation...
...November 7, the Cambridge electorate will vote up or down a binding affordable homeownership initiative petition I have written, called 'Proposition 1-2-3.' This will appear on the ballot through the support of 15,000 people (30 percent of the registered Cambridge voters) who have cared enough about the issues it involves to sign in public the petition papers...
Mitchell said he was ready to vote "as soon as possible. A reasonable time would be tomorrow...