Word: pry
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...father called me last night at 1:30 a.m. "They killed Colosio tonight," he said. Luis Donaldo Colosio was the presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has been in power since the Mexican Revolution early this century. He was shot last night in the head and stomach as he addressed a crowd in Tijuana, and he died three hours later. I listened in a state of shocked disbelief...
Colosio came from a humble background and climbed his way up through hard work. He attended public school--uncommon among the present generation of leaders--and obtained excellent grades. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, he was nominated as the presidential candidate for the PRI...
Harvard Department of Athletics administrators have said alumni donations to friends' groups, which support individual teams, are the pri- mary reason why men's teams generally have more resources than their female counterparts. During the symposium, Kleinfelder said the inequality in donations from friends' groups is the greatest cause of inequity in sports funding between men's and women's teams...
Salinas hasty retreat from a scheme which involved requesting a substantial donation of twenty five million dollars to his ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) from a number of prominent Mexican executives was in part due to the increased scrutiny brought on by the ongoing negotiations...
Some council members complained that the Spin Doctors bill, which allocated $20 to a concert pri- vately organized by Treasurer Michael P. Beys'94, only passed because it was presented as newbusiness and thus circumvented possible objectionsin the financial committee or executive board...