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...appalled by the status quo that I am forced to seek it,” he says, referring to the vice presidency...
...course candidates should seek to garner as many first-choice votes as possible, but they should also not ignore voters who are clearly supporting other tickets. Instead, campaigns should try to grab students’ second-place votes, which can be influential if the election requires a runoff...
Movie stars, CEOs and pro athletes areeasy to spot in their Aston Martins, Mercedes or Bentleys. But some high rollers prefer the feel of wind in their face on just two wheels--but not just any two wheels. Bypassing their local Harley-Davidson dealers, they instead seek out bespoke limited-edition luxury motorcycles...
...language’s unity ,” i.e. American-isms. In 2002, Japan appointed a “Council on Japanese Language” to advise the government and media as to what foreign terms should be admitted into the language. The members of such institutions as these seek to protect their languages against “dilution” and eventual extinction; no one wants his language to be the next one on the 3,250-language long (according to The New York Times) Endangered Languages list...
...precisely the threat of non-passage of the trade agreement that has led to the improvement on that investigative front, say Colombian union leaders. "Without that pressure from the U.S. the Colombian government would not be acting to clear up these cases and seek convictions," says Jose Luciano Sanin, director of the Escuela Nacional Sindical, a labor rights group that tracks violence against Colombia's labor movement. "All of a sudden, with this external pressure, impunity in union cases has become a priority because it is a condition for approval...