Word: voting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...keep the pressure on until apartheid is completely over--until people like Nelson Mandela can vote," said Woods, who until a few weeks ago was banned from his native South Africa...
Woods, who was a fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 1979, is currently one of five candidates nominated by HRAAA for election to the 30-member Board of Overseers. Results of the vote are scheduled to be announced this Thursday...
Ironically, the union movement began the sameyear Bok became president, as a small group ofwomen at the Medical School began a movement tounionize the 700 staff members across the river.The University fought unionization, but by 1988,the effort had gained enough momentum to call aUniversity-wide vote on the issue...
Nonsense, retort the Expo's supporters, led by Italy's Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis, who is using his position to pressure some of Italy's allies into supporting the proposal when it comes to a vote. He and his fellow advocates, including his brother Cesare and the business consortium, argue that the fair would transform Venice into the "new capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious...
...conceded the election in Nicaragua's presidential vote last February, Daniel Ortega promised supporters that his Sandinista party would "rule from below." Last week Nicaraguans got a taste of what that means, and President Violeta Chamorro learned that even out of office, the Sandinistas are far from powerless...