Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first round of voting, 1,259 undergraduates chose 50 as the council's optimal size. In comparison, 60 council members, the next most popular option, drew only 499 votes...
After having lost in last year's race as a vice presidential candidate, Driskell now possesses a broad mandate to pursue the platform of community-building that she first proposed with T. Christopher King '01, her former presidential running mate...
...Peanuts' first incarnation was as a single-panel strip named "Li'l Folks" in The St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947. It first appeared as a syndicated multi-panel strip Oct. 2, 1950, in seven daily U.S. newspapers; it now appears in over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and 21 languages worldwide. The comic has spun off television specials, memorabilia and a Broadway play. Schulz' final daily strip will run Jan. 3, and his last Sunday strip will...
...surrender the strategic plateau, the shifting forms of modern warfare make it a conceivable step in exchange for enforceable guarantees. "Remember, Ehud Barak is a former chief of the army, and he's still Israel's minister of defense and its most decorated soldier," says Beyer. "Security remains his first priority, and if he deems it permissible to cede the Golan, that carries tremendous weight...
...adds, there will simply be an incremental pileup of information, culminating, as in the case of global warming, in a raised consciousness. Tuesday's legal action may not be the straw that breaks Monsanto's back, but, as the plaintiffs' lawyers hope, it could be among the first pebbles heralding an avalanche of negative public opinion...