Word: abstentionism
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The greatest signifier of youthful identity, pop music, was dominated throughout the '80s by the middle of the road. An undeclared countercultural youth trend first reared its spiky head at the start of the '90s with the mass popularity of "alternative" music. We see it in the ascent of neohippie...
While some registered voters attributed their abstention to a dearth of compelling issues in the 1998 campaigns, others cited discontent with politics in general.
I struggled with the drinking question for a long while. On the one hand, I felt compelled by my respect for the law and a sizable degree of prudishness to refrain. I was proud to refuse to give in to what everyone else was doing, to what I considered wrong...
The vote to impeach at last Sunday's board meeting was in fact 7-1 with two abstentions. Treasurer Adam A. Sofen '01, a Crimson editor, has since changed his vote to favor the impeachment of former vice chair David A. Campbell '00 (as the article stated), as has secretary...
Tribe, however, emphasized that the Supreme Court's move was an abstention, not a vote one way or the other.