Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents of randomization, the College housing policy that has assigned upperclass students to the Houses by lottery for three years, initially blamed Harvard's policy for eroding House spirit and causing voter apathy. But House Committee leaders disputed this view...
...Government, now dominates every level of government in the interior West. As a Democrat, I think the time has come for my party to begin trusting westerners with far more control over their own landscape. But the real issue is not about the Democratic Party, but about the democratic spirit...
...Lucky for Jobs that in his business, the spirit of the underdog is alive and well. Microsoft begins an antitrust trial Monday in which it's almost unanimously cast as the heavy, and as if to prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary...
...pick up this child, lying so still, like a broken marionette, so much tape holding so many tubes. He dips his finger in the water and touches the baby's forehead. "I baptize you, Christopher, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." And they say a prayer...
...everyone has his reasons. Reasons to love, to hurt, to go on living. Some people--those moviegoers with nerve and a need to see the most potent and upsetting tragicomedy of the year--will have good reason to see Happiness. In doing so, they will celebrate the enduringly ornery spirit of independent cinema...