Word: voting
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...Time after the supreme court ruling. The decision upheld Allen's finding that Time's management acted properly when it responded to Paramount's raid by converting the Time-Warner deal from a stock swap, which required shareholder approval, to a leveraged purchase, which needed no such vote. Paramount Chairman Martin Davis said he would "continue aggressively to build our core business in publishing and entertainment." Last week Paramount agreed to sell its financial-services subsidiary, Associates First Capital, to Ford Motor for $3.35 billion, which would give the communications company more cash for stalking other takeover candidates...
...week's end the House handed the President a sharp defeat by approving a defense authorization bill that turned his priorities upside down. By a vote of 261 to 162, the House slashed spending for four major strategic weapons while reinstating the F-14D and the V-22. The House decided to restrict production of the controversial B-2 bomber to just four planes during the next two years, and to authorize those only if the Bush Administration agrees to scale back its $70 billion program. The House also chopped $1.8 billion from the Administration's $4.9 billion request...
...addition, Independent Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has functioned as a political party unto himself for the last 38 years, has also decided not to seek re-election. While Vellucci supports a progressive, pro-tenant agenda, CCA councillors quickly learn that it is never safe to count on his vote...
Party stewards counted the votes once, then tallied them three more times. When the result was finally announced to the 544 Deputies in the hushed Parliament last week, the reason for all the counting became clear. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's Communist Party, had won the country's presidency with just a single vote to spare...
...This statute is a mess, and it's obvious it's a mess from everything we've seen and heard this morning," said Rep. Chuck Douglas (R-N.H.), the only Republican to vote against the bill...