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BIOLOGISTS CALL IT SYMBIOSIS: the living together in more or less intimate association of different, sometimes hostile species in which each exploits the other to its own maximum advantage. In rare cases, such as parasitic wasps, creatures use each other for survival before one destroys the other. This is not unlike the current political morphology involving the genus Presidentum Candidatus, with those two familiar species, Robert Dole, Republican challenger, and Bill Clinton, Democratic incumbent...
...carved into 44 lots, whose combined list prices (which in practice would never have been realized) amounted to $459,000. With estimated development costs and interest of $93,000, less commissions and closing costs of 15% of sales revenue, the net proceeds would have been a maximum of $95,000 to be divided between the Clintons and McDougals...
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College administrators last year said they anticipated large blocking groups and decided to shrink their maximum size from 20 to 16 in hopes of increasing diversity in the houses...
...Bennett says her choice was severely restricted by the maximum limit--she says a 20 or even 30-person limit would be more appropriate...