Word: winner
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Either Kerry, Shannon, former Speaker of the Massachusetts House David M. Bartley, or Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly will face the winner of the Republican primary battle between former Defense Secretary and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 and Walpole businessman Raymond Shamie...
...vote getters in a multicandidate field are pitted against each other in a second election. Jackson claims that such runoffs are inherently discriminatory, since blacks rarely constitute a majority and thus have difficulty beating a white head to head. One possible compromise: holding runoffs only when the first-round winner receives less than 40% of the vote. The issue will apparently be thrashed out in the convention's platform committee, which Mondale delegates will control. Jackson feels certain that he can get enough support on the committee to take a minority report backing his position to the convention floor, where...
...delay has added fuel to suspicions that the government has engaged in vote fiddling. In the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Opposition Candidate Carlos Padilla was initially reported to have trounced Political Affairs Minister Leonardo Perez by some 19,000 votes. Last week the election commission declared the winner was Perez, who just happened to be its former chairman...
...stock sale will bring welcome cash to some of London's newspapers, which collectively own 41% of the company and are nearly all losing money or making decidedly modest profits. The biggest nominal winner is Rupert Murdoch, whose papers in Britain and Australia have a 9.8% total share of Reuters' various classes of stock, worth approximately $100 million, none of which he is offering for sale. Murdoch, who also owns the New York Post and Chicago Sun-Times, acquired about 40% of his companies' interest in Reuters as an apparently minor part of his $27 million purchase...
...sees another problem with faculty commitment to a single candidate. "I frankly think that the faculty is perhaps more cautious than before," she says, explaining, "a lot of the faculty are trying to keep their lines open to more than one candidate. They want to back a winner. So they've chosen to act more as experts and advisors without taking a stand...