Word: majority
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Dolan got into politics as a Republican volunteer in his native state of Connecticut and at 21 was a paid organizer in the 1972 Nixon campaign. "I'm ashamed to admit that now," he says. In 1976, as a protest gesture against the major parties, he voted for the Libertarians...
...balls were the first debris to hit U.S. waters from the runaway Mexican oil well that has dumped 265,000 tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the biggest oil spills in history-and potentially a major environmental disaster...
What worried the Coast Guard and a 150-member group of experts from eight federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, was the oil's elusive quality. In contrast to other major spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson...
Approach #3. The Standard Approach. Prerequisite: Desire to talk about your SAT's, major, law or medical school of choice. You must read all of the suggested books and go to as many University-sponsored events as possible. Always smile. Spend a lot of money, and get thoroughly lost at least twice, once on campus and once in Cambridge (which by some quirk of the Puritan Ethic lacks signs indicating the names of major streets, but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don't know the name of the street...
...began to spend more time at The Crimson. I still felt lonely, and sporadically angry, but I was often too busy to sulk. I took some more couses on Asia, and discovered that one actually made me think, as opposed to regurgitate. Eventually, I became an East Asian Studies major. While I still hated Stoughton, I discovered that laughing at the crazies made them less threatening, and I found two women there who eventually became my best friends. Ellen and I even worked out a cautious detente--she realized that I was not a preppie socialite and I began...