Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that second she went on to a series of California firsts, as the first openly gay or lesbian law professor at the law schools at Loyola University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She then became the first openly gay elected state official in California, winning a seat in the State Assembly from west Los Angeles...
...think a near-capacity crowd in a 175-seat auditorium is a refreshing testament to the strides the council has made toward relevance, or at least to the fact that not all undergraduates are as unconcerned as this newspaper would paint them. --Kent B. McNellie '99, Harvard Political Union chair
...says that when he rode a crowded bus and there were no seats left, he would hold on to handstraps--a very painful task. Goodman was too embarrassed to ask anyone to give up a seat...
...Larger screens in front of each passenger seat provide individual controls for browsing the Web or watching...
...year-old businessman named Guy Millner. In 1994, armed with $1.6 million of his own money, Millner jumped into Georgia's gubernatorial race and won the Republican primary before losing narrowly to incumbent Democrat Zell Miller. Two years later, Millner ran for Georgia's vacant U.S. Senate seat--again gaining the G.O.P. nod, and again falling short in the general election. Political wags figured he was finished, or possibly broke--Millner had footed $6.4 million of that campaign's costs. But this summer Millner surprised them and announced his candidacy for Governor in 1998. Polls show him ahead...