Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the program "is not going to be run like a Quaker meeting." B.U. originally proposed that a university-appointed board would make most school decisions. Outraged school committee members successfully lobbied for the right to to overrule verdicts on the budget or school policy with a two-thirds vote. However, B.U. would still hold most of the cards...
...equipped with Stinger missiles, the former Kabul University theology professor met with Jamiat commanders in Panjshir's bomb-scarred villages. Rabbani told TIME that he thought it unlikely that elections could be held soon after Kabul falls. "It is important to establish a government on the basis of the vote of the common people of Afghanistan," he said in a bow to principle, "but under these conditions an election is not simple. It may even & be impossible. If so, I see another solution, namely military administrative units strong enough to establish order and bring about the conditions for elections." Last...
...Retired Persons ably represents America's elderly, but it should not be allowed to drown out the softer voices calling for improved prenatal and infant care. U.S. infant mortality rates remain among the highest for all industrialized nations; 40,000 newborns will die this year. "Children don't vote, but they surely need a constituency," says Dr. William Roper, a pediatrician who is head of the Health Care Financing Administration...
...know, millions of Americans will go to the polls on Nov. 8 to elect a new President. What you may not know is that five days earlier, on Nov. 3, millions of American students and their parents will vote for a new President in a mock election sponsored principally by Time Inc. United by a live nationwide satellite broadcast, they will be taking part in the largest voter- education project ever...
...issues to the country's 15,000 school districts. Over the coming days, students will take part in discussions in their classrooms -- and, we hope, at home with their parents &-- about the national issues outlined in TIME's booklet. Then on Nov. 3, the students and parents will vote for members of Congress and Governors, as well as for President; they will also answer a questionnaire on topics ranging from drug laws to arms control developed for TIME by the polling firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. The results from each school will be telephoned to a state coordinator, who in turn...