Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice charges that stem from a case that a federal judge threw out." Especially not in an election year. While Clinton's approval rating percentage is soaring into the 70s, the GOP is most likely to hear the one spin that speaks loudest of all: That of the ballot...
When he reached voting age, he marked his first ballot for Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924. Five decades later, he ran for President himself. But it is what he accomplished in between that made Dr. Benjamin Spock one of the most famous and controversial figures of his century. He single-handedly changed the way parents raise their children. He preached, albeit gently, that what infants need most from their mothers and fathers is love. Babies are not, he argued (against the prevailing wisdom of the times), little savages who must be broken to adult schedules as quickly as possible...
...hope to see [the act] on the November ballot," Wilson said. "[The act] will make permanent the funding for class size reductions, and will do something about the quality of teaching...
Dwight Eisenhower won the presidency of the U.S. in a ballot-box revolution. In a time of unprecedented prosperity with 62.5 million men & women at work, the voters repudiated the party in power--repudiated an administration which held the awesome leverage of a $80 billion-a-year budget. The Democrats frankly fought the campaign on the pocketbook issue: "Don't let them take it away." The people did what materialists and cynics say people never do: voted against what they believed to be their immediate economic interests...
...this election season heats up, California's propositions, this time on term limits for U.S. Representatives and bilingual education, are again in the news. Yet despite all this seeming success, these chances for Californians to directly affect state law and national attitudes at the ballot box, I am pessimistic about the current state of propositions and urge the need for all those who follow the propositions to consider the need for their reform. Before taking sides on the propositions, political analysts and Californians like me should reflect on how the initiative system has been abused and needs our help...