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Four men and four women will be elected Marshals by their classmates in a two-week voting process that, for the first time, will coincide with elections for the Undergraduate Council. Like the Council elections, the Marshal ballotting will use the Hare Proportional Representation system, in which voters rank candidates in order of preference...
...speaker has spent as much time a top the State House ladder as Tom McGee, and McGee's hardnosed ruling style has built up some resentment among the rank-and-file. "People have had small and large grievances with McGee for a while," Michael A. Goldman, political consultant to the Keverian campaign, said yesterday...
...create objects of massive size or religious significance. They could show a unique touch with such humble household necessities as the fishhook. The curve of the shank was obtained by training a branch of a living tree. When the hook was to be used by a man of high rank, it was topped with a dainty head. The deadliest of the Maori weapons, the sharp-sided club used in hand-to-hand fighting, is of similarly graceful design. Both categories of artwork bear an eerie resemblance to the 3000 B.C. figurines from the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean...
...union pushed for an improvement of both offers, and by late in the week the differences between the two sides were narrowing. Once an agreement is reached, however, it still must be put to a vote of union members. U.A.W. leaders bargained hard last week, while remembering that restless rank-and-file workers had accepted the last contract in 1982 by only a close 52%-to-48% vote...
...policies), American workers appear sufficiently concerned with job security so as to be more conciliatory than their British counterparts. Furthermore, American unions are beginning to recognize their erosion of their political clout. In addition to dwindling membership, union leaders can no longer be certain that they can deliver the rank and file vote...