Word: rising
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Among the most telling statistics is the rise in the number of districts where there are more candidates than seats Last year, a paltry seven of the 17 districts were competitive; this year, all but Eliot, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop Houses...
...first is the rise of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC), a political organization spear headed by leaders of the College's liberal student community. PUCC is hoping to enhance the council's diversity and use the council as means of advancing a political agenda...
Congressman Mel Reynolds, the Rhodes scholar whose political rise created a wave of optimism in Chicago's black communities, may spend the rest of the decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...
...retiring baby-boomers unless changes were made. So the government began hording some of the money that comes in, and there is now a trust fund of about $1.3 trillion. In addition, the payroll tax has been fixed for nearly seven years, and looks as if it will not rise again. With luck, our generation will not lose any money on the deal, but we will certainly not make the profit that our grandparents are making. But in order for that to happen, changes still need to take place...
...Founding Fathers did not devise a system that was meant to be risen above. It was meant to be mundanely inhabited. Power was meant to be divided and dispersed. Our entire political engine was built precisely to produce conflict, tension, even gridlock. The way to rise above that is not with some man on a white horse mouthing mush. The way to elevate politics is to elect a man with a party and a program and give him a shot. The American way is Franklin Roosevelt, not Juan Peron...