Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election that will clear the way for more free trade worldwide, Canadian voters last week decided to return Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his Progressive Conservative Party to power. The final results showed the Progressive Conservatives getting 43 percent of the popular vote and 170 seats in the House of Commons, followed by the Liberal Party with 31.9 percent and 82 seats and the left-leaning New Democrats with 20.4 percent and 43 seats...
...deputies then took their defiance a long step further: they agreed to amend the Estonian constitution to grant the republic's own supreme soviet the right to "suspend or establish limits" on Moscow-promulgated legislation affecting Estonian territory. Another vote made state property the possession of Estonia rather than the Soviet Union. Yet another called for a new "treaty of the union" with Moscow based on "principles of parity." Never was the word independence mentioned, but the delegates made clear that Tallinn wanted a radically different relationship with Moscow. Declared Estonian Communist Party Leader Vaino Valjas: "The future...
...League, rather than by voters in local constituencies. Legal experts in Tallinn contend that the parliamentary reorganization will dilute the influence of the individual republics in national affairs. They specifically fear that the innovations will give those Soviet citizens who belong to national organizations the equivalent of a second vote...
...Neill adds that the University's representatives in city committees generally do not vote on issues affecting Harvard...
Under state law, anyone who owns 20 percent or more of the land affected by a zoning change may, by objecting, force the City Council to pass it by a vote of seven to two, rather than the usual six to three. Critics of the University say the provision inevitably stacks the deck in Harvard's favor on real estate issues...