Word: baseness
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Controversy and mix-ups marred the Student Assembly elections this week, and only the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU) emerged unscathed. The CDU, the assembly's first political party, captured more than a third of the assembly's 96 seats and a small power base...
...must decide how it will use its new-found power base. Party members voted this week not to endorse officially a slate of candidates for the assembly's board of officers, but nevertheless students may expect some behind-the-scenes maneuvering on the part of CDU members, who will be a powerful force in this semester's assembly if they can stay united...
...minister. The United States had taken an interest in the local regional organization--the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)--and has made efforts to be supportive there while at the same time seeing it primarily as a local, regional endeavor. We continue to have a military presence and base in the Philippines. I think there is definitely a feeling that an American presence in Southeast Asia will continue and is important but the extent of the involvement and the detail that we saw in the 1960s is unlikely to reoccur...
...period but I don't think it's eroded to that extent that there's nothing of residual value there. I think in particular, some of the criticism that's been going on in the Philippines is shadow-boxing over what rent will be paid for the American military base...
...areas that reported joblessness above the national average. But in order to figure out what their unemployment rates are, Congress forces states and cities to go through a cumbersome 70-step process; many find it impossible and submit figures that are really only guesses. The commission would instead base federal aid largely on state and local figures reported every five years by the census. The numbers would always be out of date, but at least they would represent a hard count...