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...Florida drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion...
...army against Quebec terrorists while forcing the English-speaking provinces to make services available in French. He led a rethinking of the constitutional structure of the country and its relationship with England. He sparked a Canadian orientation toward the Pacific Rim 20 years before that phrase became a byword in the U.S. Those were special years in Canada's life...
...western farmers who were complaining about federal marketing arrangements, and it took months for his subordinates to cajole farm leaders down from the roofs of their silos.) He turned Canada's attention toward Asia, proclaiming a new orientation toward the "Pacific Rim" 20 years before that phrase became a byword...
Ciollo said the movie was publicized only byword-of-mouth, but Bennett said it was mentionedat a gathering of the Late-Late Club, a studybreak for students pulling all-nighters...
...campus, equality is a byword, a goal that no one disputes. On our campus equality is often than not a fact. It has been decades since Radcliffe women began attending class with Harvard men. It has been more than twenty years since women left Radcliffe Quadrangle and joined men in the Houses. Now even Radcliffe College itself is disappearing...