Word: ran
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...similar note, the February issue of GQ magazine ran an article entitled "Jocks Are Lousy Lovers," by Allison Glock...
...dismal voter turnout figures from the most recent elections, this argument seems quite compelling. But the most recent elections, in which 99 students ran for 81 seats, may not be the most representative in terms of voter turnout. If you live in a house where there are no more candidates than council seats--as Liston does--would you bother to vote for U.C. representatives? If we take a more long-term outlook and look back on previous elections, we see that voter turnout was not always so low. In the fall of 1993, voter turnout was approximately 50 percent. While...
...Baring's behalf cost the bank more than $1 billion, forcing it into bankruptcy after the market fell last week. Leeson fled his home and was last tracked to Malaysia, where he checked out of a hotel on Friday. Leeson's risky dealings were detected last week when he ran out of money and asked the home office for more, according to a British government source. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says Leeson is the oldest of four siblings born to a blue-collar family in a London suburb, an average student who did not attend college and began...
...syndicated columnist Carl Rowan about the uncontrolled spending of organizational funds by Gibson and his cronies on the 64-member board of directors. According to several board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside the organization as Gibson's ``special friend''; extra hotel rooms at N.A.A.C.P. conventions, at which Gibson...
...command--but in command of a ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies and, with their women, fled into the brush. Within minutes most of the 32 families had disappeared without a trace. A few young men who stayed behind explained that the inhabitants had pulled the same vanishing act four times previously when soldiers appeared...