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...reminder that I nailed 31 out of 40 games last year for a percentage of .775, we turn now to the crystal ball, located in the middle of the Ouija board littered with tarot cards, to predict this week's winners in what appears to be a disturbingly tough slate of eight games...
...running as a unified slate, the reform candidates plan to take advantage of the proportional representation voting system, which requires to rank the candidates in order of preference. "People will see us as a slate throughout the campaign and thus will vote the slate on election day," convention-backed school committee member Alice Wolf said...
...Russell, joined forces with the liberal faction of the council to elect themselves mayor and vice-mayor, in exchange for their votes to replace then-City Manager John Corcoran with James L. Sullivan. Since that split, the independents have not been a really cohesive political force and no "Independent Slate" has surfaced in this fall's election...
...sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily Diário de Notícias have denounced the paper's Communist line, and 17 newsmen of the state television system have demanded the resignation of Correia Jesuino...
...staring at him. Father, a normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came up, the sky had turned overcast, and the great ocean began to tumble and break upon itself as if made of slabs of granite and sliding terraces of slate. He watched the ship till he could see it no longer. Yet aboard her were only more customers, for the immigrant population set great store by the American flag...