Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Abdullah, 37, ascended to the Jordanian throne in February, following the death of his father King Hussein. The popular Hussein was known for his active role in promoting the peace process, an ideal Abdullah vowed to uphold...
...four years that council presidents and vice presidents have been elected directly by students in campus-wide popular elections, candidates have been, for the most part, clustered into one of two well-defined groups...
This strategy worked two years ago, Raman says, when students filled Sanders Theatre to hear a star-studded faculty panel debate affirmative action. Last November, a forum on the effects of randomization, co-sponsored with Diversity & Distinction magazine, also proved popular...
...just wretchedly expensive; they're also illegal. "I was told that the hair came from the chin of the ibex goat," says Kempner. "That [the goats] rubbed it into the rocks and villagers picked it up and wove it into shawls." That is a quaint--and popular--delusion. The wool of a goat is combed and woven into pashminas. But the superior wool of shahtooshes is harvested from dead chirus, an endangered antelope that resides on the Tibetan plateau. An estimated three to five chirus are killed for each shawl...
...robbery rates now at their lowest levels since the late 1960s. The overall violent crime rate - the total number of assaults, robberies, rapes and murders per 100,000 people - is now 566, just a little above where it was in 1985, the last year before crack became a popular (and murderous) activity. Guns were still responsible for the majority of murders (64.9 percent) but that figure represents a continued downward trend, dropping from 67.8 percent...