Word: winded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Friday it called on the Democratic Party to choose a new chair who would “reconnect the party with the grassroots.” MoveOn and the Dean campaign showed that when you start getting enough individuals engaged, and start adding enough small contributions together, you can wind up with something pretty big. But political money comes in all shapes and sizes, and now some bigger donors are also beginning to throw their weight around. Matt Bai had a widely cited cover story in the New York Times Magazine this summer about a growing network of wealthy progressives...
Students also questioned the administration’s resistance to the Undergraduate Council wind power referendum, which passed last week in the council elections...
...Chan ’07, one of the founders of thefacebook.com’s lobster advocacy group, of a $10 opt-out fee for students to fund the feast, which he calls a “monumental college experience.” But, unlike the recently passed wind energy initiative, we don’t condone the use of opt-out fee referenda—however effective—ad nauseam. If either a Lobster Fund or Mercer doesn’t come through, we would rather trust HUDS’ judgment and keep our grilled chicken...
...commercial wind industry lobbied long and hard to emerge as one of but a few avenues to compliance with new laws aimed at carbon reduction—laws they helped write—laws stating that targets are to be reached with percentages of “power generated with renewable sources,” rather than percentages of “lowered pollution levels.” Works out pretty well for the wind guys...
...it’s a disaster for breezy communities everywhere, especially if places like Harvard College keep swallowing the bait—hook, line and sinker—from slick wind marketers claiming their only concern is for the environment...