Word: outlasts
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Carrying at most only 13 players, including sophomore Tom Chalberg, who split time between water polo and singing with the Krokodiloes, Harvard was unable to outlast the national powerhouses that typically boast 30 or more players on their rosters...
...message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium found that 53% of Gen Xers believe that the TV soap opera General Hospital will outlast Medicare. If permitted, 59% of Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says...
Novels do not ordinarily dabble with too much exactitude in current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare...
...result, coupled with the flexible nature of the curriculum, means that innovations tend not to outlast their creators, Lewis says...
...possible. His operatives added North Carolina to the list last week, but that brought the total to only 13. In a marked change of strategy, Perot is seeking federal money for the Reform Party's ticket, at least in part because he wants to create a party that will outlast him. Under federal rules, if Perot gets 5% of the popular vote in this election, his party gains not only legal status but also the right to a federal subsidy in 2000 that would benefit a compatible successor. So far, the Federal Election Commission staff has decided that he personally...