Word: unless
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Without undergraduates on campus to table at the fair, student groups fear low attendance at the fair unless a solution is found...
...going to be quite a challenge to make a vivid impression on the freshmen," said Geoffrey C. Rapp '98, an executive board member of Holoimua o Hawai'i. "Unless we show them that there is a supportive community from Hawaii here, it is unlikely that they will want to be a part of our club...
Blair is unapologetic. "It is not a sin to want to be elected," he says. "Unless you're elected, you can't do a damn thing for anybody." Those who seek office, he knows, aren't shy about accommodating reality, and the realities have changed rapidly in Britain. Large chunks of the old working class have advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated...
...solution embraced by the likes of DuPont and BankAmerica is to grant CEO stock options that can be cashed only after the stock has risen a specified amount. That way a CEO doesn't make a killing unless the stock really zooms. An even better answer is to devise stock options that are indexed to the market or some peer group. They would remain worthless unless the stock outperforms its competitors. Some have suggested the CEOs be required to buy stock above the market price, but that incentive could hurt workers, since a time-honored method of making the stock...
...suddenly jump out of one's seat and yell, "What is going on? I don't understand what you're talking about!" Mamet also seems to expect prior knowledge and intelligence from his audience. The first act involves the history of the Jews that I would not have understood unless I had luckily taken Foreign Cultures 56: "Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Before 1914" this semester. After all, would any Joe Schmoe know what a shtetl is? As for the jokes, the one I still could not figure out is the line, "Bushes are steel...