Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have learned over the years, the credibility that can be afforded by popular elections is far from guaranteed. The low voter turnout that has plagued previous council elections is indicative of the disconnect between the candidates and the student body. It signifies a lack of confidence in council leadership and a dangerous apathy toward the role student government occupies within the College community. At best, popular elections have only brought the council one step closer to a goal that still remains beneath the horizon...
...trade creates jobs for everybody and lower prices for consumers. Indeed, free trade has been an important reason for the '90s boom. Even as Seattle assessed the damage on Friday, the Dow was soaring nearly 250 points on news that the unemployment rate was stuck at its 30-year low. But the protesters were in Seattle to insist that globalization has become another word for capitulation to the worst excesses of capitalism, a cover for eliminating hard-won protections for the environment and workers' rights. "Before Seattle, we were dead in the water on trade," says George Becker, president...
...that the seniors, and newly elected members, can properly reflect on these questions, consider what we currently know about chicken behavior, emotion and thought. Chickens live in large social groups and form complex dominance hierarchies whereby high-ranking animals out-compete low-ranking animals for access to valued resources. Chickens have a complex vocal repertoire consisting of approximately 25-30 different vocalizations. Within this repertoire, they have one call for aerial predators and one for ground predators. They also have food calls, and scientists have discovered that these vocalizations function like our words--they refer to objects and events...
number of cases seen in urgent care over New Years' weekend has been low...
...most circumstances, low-rent pro wrestling is so flimsy and fake that it would be difficult to get oneself excited by it. But suitably starved for thrills, this crowd of 500 or so camouflage-clad boot campers swallowed the whole show with a hoot and a holler. We (and I use the pronoun liberally) dangled candy in front of the fat wrestlers, yelled for push-ups from the fit ones, and screamed platoon slogans at one another. The usual stuff, and loved by most. The Army is full of wrestling fans, like your local bar - and for a couple...