Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With proportional representation, every vote comes to have true meaning, instilling confidence in the effectiveness of democracy. This characteristic itself would encourage voters to go to the polls. In addition to increasing voter turnout, proportional representation addresses and remedies a number of deficiencies in our supposedly representative democracy.
Lindsay doesn't assault you with his lyrics; there's no screaming into the microphone or straining to reach the high notes. You must reach for the words, straining to find your own meaning in the often-cryptic songs, which drop references to everything from the Brazilian Carnival to the...
Burnham's wife (Annette Bening), on the other hand, has taken a career-centered path to happiness, hoping to gain power and meaning by climbing up the real-estate business ladder. She sacrifices everything for career and seems to resent her daughter and husband, whose existences have impeded her upward...
What will this changeover entail? Obviously a lot of locksmiths and new locks, meaning a great expense. But isn't it worth it? First of all, especially during the first year at Harvard, in which the pressures and adjustments are so intense, being burglarized and having to deal with all...
At the beginning of the academic year, the graduate board of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 (the umbrella organization for every group that uses the Holyoke Street building) decreed that the first floor of the building, including the member's lounge, must remain "dry," meaning no alcohol at any...