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...speak up. If they're reluctant, then they ought to be asked. Vice President Al Gore '69 has been strangely silent on this topic. Not that he bears the sole blame; he has had only one challenger and that challenger is losing ground fast. Gore has no desire to expend valuable political energy on this issue. After all, the environment is a hot-button topic that polarizes party radicals on both sides of the fence...

Author: By Samuel Seidel, | Title: Cold Feet on Global Warming | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...took the goal of joining the EU to end the incessant quarreling between Greece's two dominant parties and to convince them to expend their energies toward constructive ends such as curbing inflation to less than 3 percent and achieving a fiscal deficit of less than 3 percent. This is a major accomplishment in a country that has chronically used the economy as a springboard for free-riding...

Author: By Osman F. Boyner and George Nikas, S | Title: Historic Foes See Hope for Friendship | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...biggest problem Harvard will face internally this year is "keeping people happy with game time," Delaney-Smith said. But that shouldn't be a problem if the players expend all their energy running the floor...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Go Big, Deep This Year | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...hoped-for outcome and its importance to the person's life goals has to be considered when weighing the decision about how much of one's resources to expend on the effort," Orr wrote...

Author: By Kiratiana E. Freelon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Made of Dough? | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...average credit card holder keeps the first credit card for 15 years, according to CCCS. Needless to say, this makes 18-year-old college first-years a tremendously attractive market for credit card companies--one they expend large advertising budgets on every year...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debt Management | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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