Word: elected
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Nevertheless, nearly every Asian American student at Berkeley will elect to take at least one course in Asian American studies during their undergraduate careers, he says...
...talking about finding code words and code events, like having Ron Goldman's father speak for the victims of violence at the G.O.P. convention." But the Dole adviser, who worked for George Bush in 1992, remembers how wrong they were back then. "We thought Rodney King would re-elect Bush," he says. "The King verdict revolted everyone, but we figured whites would worry most about becoming victims as they drove through the areas they'd escaped for the suburbs." Bush, thought the Bushies, was more likely than Clinton to be seen as capable of stopping such outcomes. "We're skittish...
...upshot is people will be billed less in January [for the second semester] if they select to stay eight months," she said. "They can elect that at any point and have that rebated on their term bill. [The lengthened school year] primarily affected the first year class...
...local chapter of the Christian Coalition, a church-based grassroots organization, is gearing up to elect candidates to the Cambridge School Committee who support the group's conservative political agenda...
...mundanely inhabited. Power was meant to be divided and dispersed. Our entire political engine was built precisely to produce conflict, tension, even gridlock. The way to rise above that is not with some man on a white horse mouthing mush. The way to elevate politics is to elect a man with a party and a program and give him a shot. The American way is Franklin Roosevelt, not Juan Peron...