Word: voting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate vote came eight days after President Bush and congressional Democrats agreed on the plan to boost the minimum wage by 45 cents next April 1 and another 45 cents a year later...
Critics and supporters alike of 1-2-3 said that the unusually high voter turnout that hurled Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf to the top of the City Council preliminary vote count would probably ensure the referendum's failure...
Observers said yesterday that despite ahard-fought campaign, the high vote totals forWolf and other pro-tenant candidates meant thatthe referendum was in trouble...
Meyer said yesterday that he only been hopingto get about 40 percent of Tuesday's vote, andthat he never believed the referendum would gainthe approximately 16,000 votes it would need topass...
...final vote came afer Hatch and a handful of other conservative Republicans long opposed to any increase made a spirited rhetorical effort to derail the compromise by defeating or amending...