Word: jim
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...party, Huckabee's tobacco plan got bottled up in the Arkansas house. So he put it before voters, and the referendum passed, 64% to 36%, in 2000. Huckabee also helped persuade voters to increase their own gas taxes to fund long-overdue highway repairs in 1999. The previous Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's Democratic successor, had tried and failed to pass a highway program...
...numbers are continuing to grow, Our 2006 summer class will reflect a considerable increase over the 2004 and 2005 classes,” wrote Jones. “The increased appetite for MBAs is reflective of a stronger market for our Investment Banking division.” HBS spokesman Jim Aisner also attributed the salary increase to the improving economy and a increase in the number of students seeking jobs with high paying hedge funds and venture capital firms. According to a survey conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council, the organization that administers the GMAT test, the mean base...
...Morning Jacket was its air of cultivated scruffiness; its members looked like Lynyrd Skynyrd Muppet Babies--and played like them. Here they finally shake off their youthful jam-band fascination and write some songs. From the ecstatic atmospherics of Wordless Chorus to the crackling What a Wonderful Man, singer Jim James is expansive without being lazy. If they still pack in an odd, trippy tune about kittens on fire (Into the Woods), it's perhaps because some jam-band habits are harder to break than others...
...Year issue, we needed to get four interviews -- all four of them with world leaders; all four of them at peak, frantically busy moments in their lives; and all four of them in about a week. On Dec. 7, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and managing editor Jim Gaines met over dinner in Oslo, where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were to receive their Nobel Peace Prizes three days later, and considered the problem. Mandela's people told Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod that they might be able to give TIME an hour or so early the next morning...
When the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) reopened this fall, much of the gym’s equipment was missing. Pforzheimer House Superintendant Jim Gallivan said that “in September, there was a problem locating the equipment, but two weeks into the school year, it was found in a Malden warehouse and now all of it is back.” Still, a Cabot House intramural representative, Evie Spanos ’06, said that “intramural games have been regularly cancelled or delayed at the QRAC because of equipment problems.” Spanos said...