Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evan's love of athletic competition and his high-school experiences did not prepare him for Harvard's political scene. Elected to the council as a freshperson, Evan became heavily involved with it. He ran important committees and jockeyed for the most important offices...
...anything different, obviously I think I would have studied more," says Phillips, who ran into academic difficulties his sophomore year. "But I think 95 percent of the people here wish they had studied more. I made decisions along the way and now, even in the end, they seem like the right decisions...
Indeed, events seemed to bear Lee out. More than half the candidates for council ran on platforms opposing Harvard's nine all-male final clubs--an issue which the council had straddled the year before--as the election for chair essentially became a race to the campus' political left. In fact, Lee--now often identified with the council's liberal agenda for his leadership on a variety of outspoken resolutions--at first represented the conservative alternative in the final election for chair...
...Kitty did real campaigning," Campion says, explaining that the governor's wife travelled to several key states each day to campaign on behalf of her husband. At the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta--during which time Campion ran Kitty Dukakis' entire convention operation--the prospective First Lady surprised many by meeting with delegates throughout most of the days, Campion says...
Fusion occurs when two small atoms combine to form a larger atom, releasing energy. The Utah researchers reported that when they ran an electric current through a flask containing heavy water and palladium, a sharp increase in water temperature occurred. The pair claimed that atoms of deuterium (a form of hydrogen found in heavy water) entered the palladium and fused together into helium atoms...