Delegates at the Royal College of Midwives conference asked the union's governing council to consider balloting the 37, 000 members over industrial action.

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Housing the black delegates was not a problem, since all delegates stayed in local college dormitories, which were otherwise empty over the year-end break.

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The Electoral College was created in 1787 by a constitutional convention whose delegates were unconvinced that the election of the president could be entrusted to an unfiltered vote of the people, and were concerned about the division of power among the 13 states.

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Dr Wilks told delegates that the BMA would initiate a public awareness campaign with the Royal College of Nurses to ensure patients knew what resuscitation involved.

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Mr Penn's strategy may have worked if the Democrats allocated all the delegates in each state to the winner (just as the electoral-college vote is awarded to the winning candidate in the general election in almost every state).

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Howard University was the only traditional black college that belonged to the NSFA. Murrow successfully recruited half a dozen more black schools and urged them to send delegates to Atlanta.

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