Word: calls
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...these tactics have achieved results in many places--for instance, the University of Wisconsin's president approved what some call the most stringent sweat-shop controls in the country after a 97-hour student...
Fourth was a call for student participation in devising a code of conduct and overseeing apparel contracts. Finally, PSLM asks for monitoring by an independent non-governmental organization...
...List is an e-mail community (our stock will split if we call it an e-community) of some seventy-odd black people in the class of 1999, with a few white people thrown in for reverse affirmative action...
...IMPERIAL CANDIDATE Jealous rivals will try to turn Bush's high poll numbers into a liability by accusing him of remaining aloof from primary voters. Each time he skips a cattle call for candidates or dodges a debate, he'll be slammed for taking rank-and-file Republicans for granted. The Bush campaign's quiet efforts to avoid a presidential straw poll scheduled for early August in Ames, Iowa, have angered some Iowa Republicans. Not that Bush's view of Ames as a booby trap isn't justified. Straw polls--where participants pay to vote--can be manipulated by rivals...
...tipsy priest dropped the baby in the font and left him there, struggling for air, until his terrified parents persuaded the priest to fish him out. The priest was not fazed, Yeltsin recalled in his autobiography. "The boy's a fighter [borets in Russian]," he said. "We'll call him Boris." Yeltsin is still a fighter, and still has luck on his side, as the collapse of an attempt to impeach him last weekend shows. He also has cunning, and a formidable state patronage system that works for him, as well as a constitution that he had made to measure...