Word: splits
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...vote came at a special meeting of the City Council last Thursday. The councillors split down party lines on the decision whether to extend Connarton's contract for another three year term...
ABOUT 15,000 VOTERS IN CANADA'S SPARSELY SETtled Northwest Territories made it to the polls last week and narrowly approved a plan to split the vast region in two. Once a chain of legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
...metaphors, Zell has a point. Tight deadlines could curb Chapter 11 abuses by encouraging companies to get out of court quickly and return to the business of surviving in the marketplace without life support. Or, if that's impossible, to close up shop and allow their creditors to split the remaining assets...
...were playing hard, and we had split at Yale on Saturday," Hill said. "Some days you come out flat, and "some days you come out flat, and that's what we did against Columbia. We were flat and they beat...
Under the rule of Jim Crow, blacks were united by the struggle against racial oppression and tended to speak with one voice. Today the expansion of opportunities has allowed African Americans to split along economic lines; the & interests of the relatively well-off middle class are not the same as those of the poor. As a result, skin color alone is no longer a reliable guide to blacks' political attitudes, which range from the antiwar radicalism of Oakland Congressman Ron Dellums to the conservativism of Stanford University economist Thomas Sowell. Yet many blacks cling to an old tradition of rallying...