Word: elected
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...exercise of political freedom virtually unknown among their Arab neighbors, 7 million Egyptians went to the polls last week to elect 448 members to the national parliament. More than 3,600 candidates from six political parties vied for seats in the People's Assembly in the country's most serious campaign ever. As expected, President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party maintained its overwhelming majority in the legislature by winning 75% of the vote, thus virtually ensuring Mubarak a second six-year term when the Assembly nominates a President in October. An Islamic fundamentalist alliance of three parties, including...
...fewer than 30 students elect to live in affiliated housing option, the remaining places probably will be offered to entering transfer students, Colvin said...
Frusztajer is not alone. Every year about 50 people elect to defer admission and spend their socalled "gap year" far from books and libraries. Experiences run the gamut from chasing turtles in Greece to digging in the Cook Islands...
...least as far back as Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, novelists have been interested in setting imaginary characters loose against a background of authentic, tumultuous events. Small wonder. History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly...
...union charges collusion, but the thought of these 26 owners doing anything in complete concert seems as preposterous as Ron Guidry lingering on - his tractor over a matter of $50,000 while Steinbrenner replaces him with a pitcher (Tommy John, 46) three years older than Hall of Famer-elect Catfish Hunter. Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson, who ultimately retrieved Morris but lost Catcher Lance Parrish to Philadelphia, is typically philosophical. "Babe Ruth is buried in Baltimore ((Hawthorne, N.Y., to be irrelevantly accurate))," he says, spitting, "and the game goes...