Word: diehardism
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...House Administration Committee, to which the bill was referred, heard testimonial from elections officials who stated that they “strongly advocate the advantages of current generation electronic voting technology.” Who were these officials? Kathy Rogers, Director of the Georgia Elections Division, and that diehard Diebold believer, Dr. Brit Williams...
...songs were fantastic: an organic sound, dense but airy, layered with intensely complicated but immediately ingratiating vocal arrangements and Parks’ beautiful, obscure lyrics. Some songs were finished; others were short, orphaned segments; some never made it past the demo stage. A small but growing core of diehard fans kept the flame burning. The advent of the internet meant easy propagation of the material. Finally Wilson himself, rehabilitated, married and finally receiving proper medical treatment, broke his decades of silence about the album and this past year pieced the fragments of Smile into a workable order and rerecorded...
...Harvard, not to be robbed of its third Ivy win, came out even stronger when the storm blew over. Taking the field to the drumbeat of a few diehard Crimson fans, it battled for another 24 minutes before sealing the victory...
...adventures in being a uniter, not a divider, have raised McGraw's Q rating and brought him new fans--he is particularly popular with women--but they haven't changed the sound of his albums. That's because the people he counts on to vote with their wallets are diehard country centrists. On Live Like You Were Dying, there are traces of McGraw's love for the Eagles, James Taylor and even Robert Johnson, but they are faint traces. Most of the material has an edgeless, generic quality, both musically and thematically. Like most other country artists, McGraw sometimes writes...
...outright voluminous. Sure, it’s a Good Thing when your family doctor is well-versed in the ins and outs of both Kant and cardiac arrest, and of course long division (for the sake of argument) should not be beyond the reach of even the most diehard lit-critter. An entire semester’s-worth of courses aligned explicitly as outside the interests set forth by the student themselves, however, seems to cross that proverbial line and interfere in a rather cumbersome way with the development of a focused academic program...