Word: clingingly
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...Everyone finds a niche" are two tired phrases that, like most cliches, have a lot of truth in them. Particularly for those students who come from strong ethnic communities to begin with, Harvard's "salad bowl" of diversity (a few tomatoes, mostly a lot of lettuce) can make people cling to their identities. "Our whole lives we're with other students...As minority students, we need support for each other," said Sara K. LaRoche '95, co-chair of Native Americans at Harvard...
...early doubles victories by Co-Captain Melissa McNabb and freshman Kate Roiter and the duo of freshman Kelly Granat and sophomore Kendra Harris swayed the momentum in Harvard's direction, momentum which Harvard would cling to like Saran Wrap around old chicken salad...
...battle to be waged in the next days and weeks could decide the fate of Russia for decades. Yeltsin is asking an exhausted, impoverished people to entrust their future as a democratic, free-market country to him and to depose the neocommunist forces who cling to the politics and economics of the past. No one knows if the opposition has become too strong for him to overcome. Or if a populace worn out by political crisis would answer the President's call. Or what the Russian military, itself split, would do if the stalemate worsened...
...entirely verbiage, since most of the Congress Deputies were originally bureaucrats from the Communist Party, trade-union functionaries and directors of state factories and collective farms. They are opposed to basic reform partly out of nostalgia for the old days and partly because they are determined to cling to the power and the privilege they still hold as parliamentarians...
...must be prepared to use force to dislodge those resume-padders who tenaciously cling to their offices and titles despite the edicts of the non-proliferation treaty...