Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great preponderance of democratic nations in the world have rejected this distorted form of representation in favor of proportional representation. All but two European nations use this system, as do South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other emerging democracies. Within these systems, every group is represented in proportion to the number of votes it receives, and thus every vote counts...
...BGLTSA has long been a largely positive force on campus. It has sponsored programming essential to the cause of gay rights and has surely been an indispensable support network for countless students. However, like any student group, it has not escaped its share of problems. Last year, the stability of its leadership was marred by an election scandal. More seriously, it has increasingly been criticized for its failure to represent the full-breadth of its constituency in its use of aggressive and explicit advertising which has made some members feel excluded from the organization...
...sexually explicit posters were inappropriate for an open campus that families and children wander through, and may have been counterproductive to causes the BGLTSA wishes to advance. It is clear that the strategy leaves many gay students feeling alienated from the BGLTSA and we are glad that a new group has stepped up to fill those students' needs...
...communities thrive on free discourse, especially the kind of discourse which challenges our subjective ideas of decency. Outside visitors come to admire Harvard not just for its brick buildings and carefully tended lawns, but also for the vibrancy of the intellectual community which those buildings house. To criticize a group which has contributed to that intellectual vitality through sparking debate is not only backwards and intellectually stifling, but it undermines the very purpose for which Harvard exists, to bring people together to learn from and challenge one another...
...with the information; if it?s for that toy company?s sole consumption, a e-mail and a follow-up phone call to the parents will fulfill the requirements. If, however, the company plans to pass the information on to another party (usually some sort of marketing group, for a steep price) a more formal notification of consent will be required, like a letter via regular mail, a fax or another, more futuristic identification method, such as a "digital signature." Each company can decide which medium works best for their purposes...