Word: seat
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...council? Ostensibly, the council also speaks for the student body, both to the administration and to the world. But again, on this campus a democratically elected assembly from the houses is not the best way of gauging and representing student opinion. Nearly any yahoo who wants a council seat can get one, and even if elections were to become competitive overnight, it would still be impractical to expect the council to genuinely reflect student opinion...
...until he fought for and won Barry Goldwater's Senate seat in 1986 that McCain began to search for a broader mission. "In the Senate you have greater freedom," recalls former administrative assistant Chris Koch. "It's not that he had a specific agenda of A, B, C. He just wanted to get out of being perceived as just a Navy guy and war hero who is good on national security." And soon enough he had a chance to fight for a cause closer to his constituents' hearts--when he resisted a rise in Medicare premiums. It was his greatest...
...million Amount sought by a man who claims that a faulty Starbucks' toilet seat crushed his penis...
...pressure started getting sucked out of the cabin and it was weird. So I could feel the air being sucked out and I was being like sucked out of the window. And I was like calling the flight attendant for help. So I was holding on to the seat in front of me. So the flight attendant comes by and so I am like holding on to her arm and I'm like help, help. And eventually we both got sucked out of the plane and we started like falling down and I was using my shirt as a parachute...
...walls. Like many college dorms, there is a dart board and a picture of Shaft, a teddy bear on the bookshelf, and a Detroit Red Wings banner. Plants seems at home in his room, comfortable with the clutter, and when guests come over, he kindly offers them a seat on a sketchy futon and a glass of iced...