Word: sudden
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...amendments also implement a proportional voting system in which students will vote for student candidates and non-students (alumni, officers, employees) vote for non-students. Voting by mail with proportional representation will safeguard the Coop from a sudden takeover by a small number of members, while offering a way for minorities to have representatives on the board...
...world within minutes after an alert. By last week the center had reported more than 199 major short-lived phenomena, including 41 earthquakes, 26 volcanic eruptions, 29 fireballs, 20 major oil spills, ten animal migrations and one red tide (a strange discoloration of the seas caused by a sudden spread of tiny marine organisms). Fifty-one of these events were important enough to warrant full-scale scientific investigations...
...Matter the Facts. Less than two weeks ago, it hardly seemed it would come to that. Despite the protests of organized labor and civil rights groups, Haynsworth's confirmation appeared assured. What brought about the sudden shift in Republican ranks against Haynsworth was the disclosure that he once had a tenuous business connection with Bobby Baker, the former Democratic Senate aide who was convicted of larceny and tax evasion in 1967. Both men invested in a South Carolina real estate deal several years ago, although neither apparently knew the other. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, leader...
...support of his fellow Nixon nominee, Clement Haynsworth of South Carolina, whose approval is by no means certain (see THE NATION). For another, Burger shows no sign of wanting to lead the court in a headlong retreat from the past 16 years. "We are unlikely to see a sudden return to some strange, anti-defendant, anti-Negro, anti-reapportion-ment court," says Professor Arthur Sutherland of Harvard Law School. "Time is running the other...
...starting area. I found out who Julio was and started taking shots of Tupenny and Julio, standing together in the field. "Colburn is going to psyche them out." It was Mr. Fair, looking Irish, looking vindictive. I think he was pretty mad that Penn all of a sudden thought it could give Harvard's cross-country team some trouble...