Word: consistency
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...edition will primarily consist of freshmen and sophmores. Union brought in 10 new recruits and all of them made the team...
Bush tried but ran afoul of a format for the Thursday-night debate that Clinton had suggested -- reasons for which swiftly became apparent. Questioners, from a studio audience specially selected to consist of 209 uncommitted voters, quickly made clear that they were in no mood to listen to personal attacks. Early on, after the President again chided Clinton for organizing protests against the Vietnam War as a Rhodes scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited...
...environmental refugees, swamping the nations that tried to conserve their soil, water and forests. The great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...
...October 8 (after the matinee), the panel will include Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair, Dept. of Afro American Studies; Hubert Jones, Dept. Dean of School of Social Work, Boston University; Charles Ogletree, professor of law, Harvard Law School; Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor. On October 9, the panel will consist of Alan Dershowitz, professor of law; Florence Ladd, Director, Mary Ingram Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College; Deval L. Patrick, chair of New England Committee, NAACP. Ticketholders to any performance are welcome to attend...
...weakening of the major parties and the rise of television have made politics an infinitely more difficult -- and morally tenuous -- endeavor. It is no longer sufficient for candidates to say they are Democrats or Republicans, explain their views on the issues and let the voters decide. Campaigns now consist of offending as few people as possible, so the possibilities for mischief and misunderstandings are endless...