Word: vies
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Glenn S. Koocher '72, one of the hosts of the Cambridge cable TV political program "Cambridge Inside Out" and a former School Committee member, says that only Cambridge candidates know how to vie for the crucial number one votes...
Wirzbicki acknowledges that conservatives are underrepresented in the Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...
...group also runs an investment game in which students invest a hypothetical $100,000 in stocks of their choice and vie for their portfolio's top performance...
...study published this month in the Journal of Early Adolescence. A high percentage of kids who bully others also report being victims themselves. Bullying is worst in the middle school years, as kids make transitions to new schools, and peaks during the first few months of school, when students vie for power among their peers...
...contestants will vie for scholarship money toward their college tuition. This year, the winner will receive at least $9,000 and the opportunity to compete for the Miss America title...