Word: meant
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Cambridge has used the system since 1941, with the proclaimed purpose of representing minorities within an elected body meant to serve not just the majority of voters. Indeed, the Cambridge system stands in striking contrast to the form of most state and national elections in the United States. Both are based on the perplexing notion that 51 percent of the vote deserves 100 percent of the representation. In this very manner we elect our Congress and our state legislatures. It is a winner-take-all system that awards disproportionate power to even the slightest majority...
Beer is barley, hops, yeast and water. Beer is meant to be cold, refreshing and intoxicating. But beer is best if you know what you're drinking. Branching out from Natty Light and the Beast can be intimidating; holding a comforting can of Busch, swilling pitchers of Red Dog and requesting a Rolling Rock at a microbrewery is akin to having a martini straight up with an olive in a Dixie cup. (Especially if the Dixie cup has cartoon characters all over...
...Justice is not necessarily a blindfolded matron holding aloft a set of balanced scales. She, or more likely he, is often peeking and open to tempting offers. "The bribery of judges is eternal," Turow gently instructs us. "At common law, before there were statutes and codes, the word 'bribe' meant only this: a benefit conferred to influence a judge...
...romance with Ellen Barkin--both women who have been the object of fervent male desire. We've always assumed, it occurred to me, that the attraction Perelman held for such women was, not to put too fine a point on it, $4.2 billion. Was his Times quote meant to indicate otherwise? Was Ron Perelman positioning himself to be considered a hunk...
...takes in fishing relates to operations at Patagonia. He says that from the outset in the early 1970s, the entire goal of the company was to do the right thing. At first it meant making the most useful and durable products, the best. Chouinard's company produced aluminum chocks instead of the old steel pitons for climbing so that rocks would not be scarred. It was also the first outdoors company to introduce modern synthetic fleece. In 1984 Chouinard directed his operation to tithe 1% of sales, which reached $180 million last year, for activist environmental groups. In 1996 Patagonia...