Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...February of this year, the council was forced to resort to paper balloting during special elections to fill vacant seats in 11 districts...
Girth aside, lest you think I am some inhumane, round-up-the-homeless-and-put-'em-in-a-hole reactionary, let me point out that I am not at all averse to giving spare change to the homeless. Although there are times I wish they wouldn't resort to such maddening gestures like opening the door for me and expecting a "reward" for their efforts--as if my two arms had suddenly become nonfunctional and I would otherwise be unable to enter 7-Eleven to buy a box of Pop Tarts--the truth is that some people are just plain...
...Vacationers may check into a Hilton-owned orbiting space resort 500 miles above the earth for relaxation and space walks in about 10,512,000 minutes...
Ethnic studies as a concentration, a department, a committee and general course offerings were among the options. Differences of opinion on strategies cropped up as well. Lin says she wants students to be able to pursue their academic interests without having to resort to strategies such as independent study or other alternative resources...
...feed doesn't hurt either. The cameo-in-every-pot strategy makes for what Friedman calls "retail television," forging bonds with camera hounds on site and viewers at home, who, the idea goes, warm to a network they see as embracing folks like themselves. Though some fans have to resort to ruses to win that embrace, as when two men snookered NBC into airing a kiss between them after luring cameras with a sign reading WILL U MARRY ME JILL...