Word: seat
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...American credibility overseas. How, foreign-policy types worry, can a nation lead if it won't even pay its bills? Late last week congressional Republicans remained deadlocked with the Administration over the arrears. Under one proposal, Congress would release enough money to allow the U.S. to retain its seat in the General Assembly. The nation's Security Council slot is not in jeopardy. But that would still leave Washington more than $1 billion in the hole, which the Administration finds unacceptable. And no one knows if the U.N.-bashing G.O.P.--which showed a willingness to play chicken politics with...
...classes (and otherwise, in more ways than I can count), but I am lucky to have met him at all. When I arrived to shop his seminar on Shakespeare's history plays, the room was bursting with senior English concentrators. Thinking that I would never get a seat in the class, I almost left. When Marius arrived, he asked, mixing drawl with happy surprise, "Are you all here to study Shakespeare...
...FRONT-SEAT DRIVER For the past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, using black boxes to track drivers' activity, including when and where they are going, via satellite. Monthly invoices are based on actual usage--the less you drive, the less you pay--and so far, Houston drivers have saved an average of 25% on their premiums. Progressive plans to launch the program in other states in the near future. Privacy advocates are concerned that despite safeguards, the information could by used against...
...small fire continued near the driver's seat until the flames consumed the rest of the bus, sending a thick cloud of black smoke and a foul odor into the air, witnesses said...
...loss will make the Crimson's title aspirations all but a statistical improbability, while a win would put Harvard in the Ivy driver's seat along with the winner of the Yale-Cornell match...