Word: slotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House of Commons sharply divided along regional lines, with two smaller opposition parties, the right-wing Progressive Conservatives and the left-wing New Democrats, posting impressive comebacks. But Chr?tien, who barely managed to hold...
...final exam for the fall term's most popular class, Economics A, is rescheduled for an unprecedented 7:15 p.m. time slot due to high enrollment and space limitations. Many students are angered...
...case was Bakke vs. California, and the Supreme Court ruled that while strict quotas were illegal universities could use race or ethnicity as "plus factors" in admissions, that is, if two equal candidates are competing for one slot, race can be the deciding factor...
Three months ago, a Missouri man going by the name Matthew Cunningham wagered $100 in a slot-machine tournament held on a Website called Global Casino. He lost. That, for Global Casino, was the good news. The bad news was that "Cunningham" was employed by the office of Missouri attorney general Jeremiah ("Jay") Nixon as part of a sting operation. Last Friday, in the first case ever against an active Internet gambling concern, a federal-circuit-court judge granted Nixon's request for a permanent injunction barring Global Casino's parent company, Interactive Gaming & Communications (I.G.C.) of Blue Bell...
...rather frightening, really. Somewhere, somehow it'll be happening, and you can't do anything to stop it. At any given 20-minute-or-more pre-planned slot this weekend, it will be going on. And when it's not going on, people will be thinking about it. You're probably thinking about it right now: ARTS FIRST...