Word: poll
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...game marked the 100th anniversary of the first Harvard-B.C. baseball contest, when the Crimson edged out the Eagles 8-7 on April 7, 1900...B.C. is ranked No. 1 in the New England Division I poll as of April 10...The game featured several of the quirky rules of college baseball, including pitchers entering a game twice and the rule which states that a batter cannot run to first on a dropped third strike with a runner on first and less than two out. The latter situation caused confusion amongst the coaches and umpires for a few minutes...
...runoff election has walked his country back from the brink, but he's no quitter - and that suggests Peru may be in for a turbulent couple of months. The runoff was announced late Wednesday after electoral officials reported that Fujimori had narrowly failed to achieve a majority in a poll tainted by charges of vote-rigging. But that announcement may be a reflection that the president has been feeling foreign and domestic pressure over charges that he was stealing the election...
...council passed by a vote of 34-2 a bill sponsored by Driskell and Burton that allocates $400 to carry out the top item on the duo's campaign platform: a comprehensive poll of students in order to diagnose important concerns...
...hard-line Cuban-American leadership also wants to preserve the political clout it enjoyed during the cold war. And it is increasingly isolated, even within Florida. In a poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...
...season began, state-controlled media and pro-Fujimori tabloids relentlessly smeared the three opposition candidates, prompting all but Toledo to fall out of the race. "And election observers had warned that with many of the far-flung election booths under military control, there may be attempts to rig the poll," says McGirk. Now, Toledo, who led his supporters' protest march, plans to go for broke in a runoff vote. But Fujimori doesn't give up easily. After all, a president who, like Yeltsin, once used his military to close down an uncooperative Congress isn't going to be spooked...