Word: procession
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early years, graduates would stop by for a meal or a drink and end up mingling with the undergraduates, giving them a leg up in the business world in the process...
Harvard should take pains to listen to Allston residents, especially this early in the planning process. University expansion has always been a contentious issue, and there is probably no way that Harvard can make everyone in Allston happy. However, if residents have a say from the beginning, the likelihood that a mutually beneficial plan can be worked out will be much greater. Harvard is going to have to sell whatever plan it eventually comes up with to the Boston Redevelopment Authority anyway. The sooner the University starts bringing residents into the planning process the more likely it is to have...
...House bill had been killed, and the bill appeared to be headed towards passage. As unregulated donations continue to flow into party coffers for the 2000 elections, it is vital that the members of Congress resist the obstructionist tactics of the GOP leadership and prevent the political process from becoming a system of legalized bribery...
First employed by the Bush and Dukakis campaigns in 1988, the soft money loophole has become a dominant force in the political process; in the last presidential election, donors flooded $260 million in soft money into both political parties. Corporations, unions and foreign entities that were all otherwise barred from donating money were able to sneak donations into the parties' pockets. The bills before the House this fall would plug the soft-money loophole, mandating that soft money would fall under the same regulations and restrictions as the money that is donated to individual campaigns...
Perhaps more concerning than the soft-money loophole in the election process is the emergence of so-called "issue ads"--advertisements clearly intended to sway an election which claim merely to discuss political issues and evade current laws by eschewing the magic words "vote for" or "vote against." Since they are also insufficiently regulated, as much as $275 million was spent on these advertisements in the 1998 Congressional elections. The Shays-Meehan bill would also extend current spending limits and disclosure requirements to the organizations that air these advertisements in the last 60 days before an election. While some criticize...