Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MANILA, Philippines--The government-dominated National Assembly held the first meeting yesterday on its official vote canvass, which by law will determine who won the disputed presidential election here...
Certification of the election result is up to the National Assembly, which was due to begin its own separate canvass today...
Nicanor Yniguez, speaker of the national assembly, told a television interviewer that the assembly would begin an official canvass of the votes on Monday...
...turn up new details about Goetz's personality and past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth Banta, talked with Goetz's neighbors and friends and rode the city's subways for a day to canvass straphangers on the level and fear of crime. Banta knows about crime first hand: he was the victim of an attempted mid-Manhattan robbery six years ago. While reporting this week's story, he recalled "the overwhelming sense of helplessness and anger I had felt then...
...more that the Undergraduate Council hopes to explore this week when it polls the student body on a set of issues concerning residential life at the 12 Houses. The two-page, 12-question survey will not only solicit comments on the lottery from freshmen but also try to canvass those who have already passed through it when it asks upperclassmen about issues such as House diversity and community. And, indeed, nothing could be more timely because at the same time that the College has worked to restore facades and refurbish interiors in many of the Houses, consensus on what life...