Word: vote
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...UCIT developed a draft of the use of name policy last summer and circulated them among faculty and administrators in the fall. The Corporation, Harvard's governing body, formally enacted the proposals by vote...
...Tocqueville understood when he visited America more than a century and a half ago, in America, religion is "the first political institution." As Robert Putnam, Sidney Verba and others have found, even in our more modern times, those who attend religious services and are involved in church activities vote and engage in direct political activity more often than do those who are not institutionally involved in religious life...
With the candidates in another room, current co-chair Andre K. Sulmers '98 conducted a non-hidden hand vote...
...April 1996, the Pilot 1000 debuted. Dubinsky and her colleagues watched anxiously to see how the gadget freaks would react. Word of mouth was critical. "If they vote thumbs down, it's over," she said. For the first four months, the sales reports were "flat, flat, flat, flat." Then, magically, they took off; the Palm was a hit. Hollywood moguls started using it. Pilots began showing up on television (Murphy Brown) and in the movies (recent sighting: Wag the Dog). Within 18 months, more than a million were shipped, a faster launch than the first cellular phones and pagers enjoyed...
...result, says TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, is an indication not so much that the center has been eradicated but that it has been successfully occupied by the Socialists. ?This is a vote of confidence in the left?s responsible management of the country,? says Crumley. This week the parties of President Chirac?s center-right alliance face the temptation of holding on to regional premierships by making alliances with the National Front -- the real danger to the center lies in the prospect that they may succumb...