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...sure that [the use of 'like'] is functional," Hale said. "The choice to use it is to adopt a social badge. It's part of saying I'm young and I feel myself allied with my social group...
...maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose it all." He held out hope that Clinton could adopt a discount rate for the smaller ranchers...
...enduring popularity with a more general public comes from wider sources. Basically, Daumier lives because for more than a hundred years people have realized that he was on their side -- a tribune of the singly powerless against the collectively powerful. This is not an attitude an artist can simply adopt; he or she must feel it deep in the bones, as by instinct, which Daumier clearly...
...considerable amount of suspicion surrounds the actual formation of the HRAC. In the forefront is the recent HRRC vote to adopt an anti-abortion position. Early in the meeting, Taylor said the vote represented "an extra springboard" for the creation of his club...
HRRC Policy Director Brian J. Erksine '96 and Member-at-Large Randall A. Fine '96 resigned their executive positions after the club narrowly voted to adopt the Republican National Committee's anti-abortion stance...