Word: took
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...Civil Rights position paid half as much--but Danagan took...
...month later at the University of Michigan, students took over the office of the president and stayed there for 51 hours, demanding an agreement like Wisconsin...
Graduate student Stephen Stose, who himself took the pledge as a senior at Manchester, first alerted Harvard students to the idea earlier this year. Stose contacted several student leaders via e-mail, asking them to bring the pledge to the attention of Harvard seniors. Stose is working with students at other Boston-area colleges, such as Tufts, MIT and Brandeis, to spark a city-wide movement for the pledge...
While Gore's aims can seem mushy, his methods are not. In a White House whose first reflex is to try to talk every problem into submission, Gore's instinct is to send in the Marines--or, lately, the Air Force. In Haiti the Vice President took on the skittish tacticians who fretted over the risks of invasion and the futility of trying to salvage a country that even in its better days was a social and environmental disaster. Citing the very real danger of waves of refugees hitting the Florida coast, Gore contended that "what was at stake...
...spokesman refuses to comment.) Now that confidence may be repaid. Chernomyrdin, in the role of Kosovo envoy for Russian President Boris Yeltsin, is a key player in the search for a diplomatic end to the war. During Chernomyrdin's visit to Washington this month, most of the talking took place around Gore's dining-room table...