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Siilats did not have the smoothest ride to the top of the competition. As in all high jump competitions, the failure to clear any given increment of the bar three times means elimination. Siilats twice needed a third try just to make it to the 1.83-meter height...
...another. Ridiculous as this definition may seem, when you watch the election returns in November you will realize that unless the popular vote in your state is split right down the middle with one vote more to the candidate you voted for, your vote has done nothing but impotently increment the one's digit in your chosen candidate's column. So the better a voting system, the greater probability of a deadlock broken by your vote, making your vote truly "count...
...Some departments this year may see an increment less high than they had hoped," Knowles said...
Knowles wrote that after the reduction of faculty pension contributions by one percent he "provided a bonus of one percent to the salaries of all faculty under forty for [fiscal year 1996], with an exhortation that this be used to replace the lost pension increment...
...While we are pleased with the 2.8 percent margin, we don't believe it is sustainable over time," he wrote. "A more realistic long-term aspiration relative to the Policy Portfolio would be an increment of about 1 percent per year...