Word: unitive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...legitimate method to determine the nomination. Although Barack Obama appears to have the popular vote lead, this number is skewed since the votes in Florida and Michigan—both of which were won by Clinton—are being discounted. According to the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Election Unit, if these votes came into play, the two candidates would be essentially tied in their vote tallies—with about 47 percent of states for each candidate—discounting the argument that Obama is the people’s choice...
...anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has already launched an investigation into the allegations. But since the Parliament's own guidelines on hiring staff are vague, and do not even require receipts for expense claims, MEPs can claim they have not broken any rules...
...netminder Christina Kessler dropped her stick on the play and had to survive over a minute of the penalty kill with Vaillancourt’s smaller stick as a substitute. Despite the disadvantage, Harvard stopped the threat without much trouble. The nation’s second-best penalty-kill unit held the Golden Knights scoreless in their five power-play chances.Clarkson also had a major opportunity midway through the second frame, when it caught Kessler out of position. But once again, the team failed to capitalize.“You have to take advantage of your opportunities...
...college scene. Facebook founder Mark E. Zuckenberg, former member of the Class of 2006, has recruited Sandberg, a top Google executive, to help run the social-networking juggernaut. Sandberg will now become Facebook’s chief operating officer. While at Google, Sandberg led Adwords—the advertising unit that accounts for the lion’s share of Google’s annual revenue—and headed the development of Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org. “Sheryl was a valued member of the Google team and we wish her well...
...traitor: the African-American who went to Harvard, sang Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” with the Kroks, and turned his back on black culture.The same category doesn’t really exist within the white community. A white kid wearing a G-Unit t-shirt may get snickered at on the street, but he’s still white. The fact that hip-hop (and, by extension, mainstream black culture) is embraced by non-black Americans has become undeniable. Hip-hop, then, is not dead, as rapper Nas recently claimed; it?...