Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...censure of Vice President Joshua D. Liston '95 was declared void due to a technicality. After Liston had already admitted breaking council bylaws by not enforcing the attendance policy during the semester, the censure attempt was a half-hearted slap-on-the-wrist after the motion to expel him from his position failed only two weeks before. Liston's flagrantly illegitimate behavior has thus been validated by the council's own incompetence...
Majority leader Mitchell, after sitting through weeks of Moynihan's professorial perorations without seeing much legislative progress, has thrust himself into the leadership void. Among Mitchell's suggestions was a compromise that would combine an employer mandate for large firms (a face- saver for the Clintons, since most large firms already provide health insurance) and an individual mandate for workers in firms with fewer than, say, 10 on the payroll. Federal subsidies would help employees pay their premiums...
...There is a technology void out there," Kimsays. "On one end, you have Time and Newsweek,which aim toward a general audience. thesemagazines often don't go into any depth. On theother end, you have computer-oriented magazinesthat take the opposite standpoint...
...President has an exceptionally difficult job navigating the new global currents. But many critics question whether Clinton has really tried to construct his own coherent approach to the world. Richard Lugar, probably the Republican Senator best informed on foreign affairs, identifies what may turn out to be a fatal void. "There is not an idea on the part of the President that there are overriding principles that are important," he says. "And the President does not envision himself as the leader of the free world...
Freshman Pete Albers has filled in for Giardi at shortstop, and freshman Craig Wilke is playing for Brissette at catcher. The two have played their positions solidly, so Harvard hasn't felt the void defensively...