Word: canvassing
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Student volunteers play a crucial role in February. All candidates hope to show strongly in either Iowa or New Hampshire and so they need volunteers who can canvass entire towns in a few hours...
...Monday night in February. The rub, of course, is that the residents of Little Iowa are inconveniently sprinkled across the 55,941 sq. mi. of Big Iowa, indistinguishable from their neighbors by any characteristics save their political commitment and, perhaps, the presence of their name on a campaign's canvass list...
...pressed on with his campaign. On Wednesday his men rushed to request fingerprints from a "suspicious" black man reported downtown; they found that he was merely an innocent man from Pittsburgh who was standing around waiting for his brother. Otherwise, Kelly's teams kept up ! their door-to-door canvass, collecting prints and handing out alarm horns to women in the blue-collar neighborhood where the rapes had been concentrated...
COUP, a organization which will work toincrease student involvement in the governance ofHarvard, will canvass signatures in house dininghalls until the end of the month. Consumer rightsactivist Ralph Nader will come to Harvard on March25th to speak on the issue, said Harvard Watchhead Robert Weissman...
Reagan's comments on the Philippines came with the outcome of the election between President Ferdinand E. Marcos and challenger Corazon Aquino still in doubt several days after the balloting closed. Each side has claimed victory, and the Marcos-controlled National Assembly is preparing a final, official canvass...