Word: election
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...once the most controversial of the committees. Its purpose is to discipline student protesters, and students, for this reason have been boycotting the committee for years. A few years ago, however, this boycott was broken when new-mood, conservative freshmen decided by referendum to elect students to serve on the committee. Administrators jumped at the opportunity to revive--at least on paper--the CRR, and put about ten freshmen on the CRR, even though only two or three are, in fact, supposed to serve according to the original faculty legislation...
...elections generate more interest than the CHUL and CUE elections, but not that much more. Again, campaigning is implicitly condemned. A political party formed last year called the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), which managed to elect about 35 of its members to the Assembly and, consequently, to elect a CDU chairman and vice-chairman in the Assembly elections...
...which by some quirk of the Puritan Ethic lacks signs indicating the names of major streets, but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don't know the name of the street you're on, you don't deserve to. Members of the elect know; everyone else has to guess. Thank you, John Calvin...
...started in disillusionment with the American Dream. As Alexis de Tocqueville clairvoyantly saw in 1835, the dream always contained a dark possibility that it might eventually degenerate, in its fulfillment, into a sorry and anxiously sweating materialism, the American elect unsatisfied, wanting more and more, turning the land of plenty into the land of wretched excess...
...beginning of last week even Somoza could see that further resistance was futile. He agreed to the rebel junta's plan for turning over power to the new regime. The first step would be for Somoza to resign and leave the country. The National Assembly would then elect an interim President, who would in turn step aside for the incoming provisional government. Finally, the Sandinista's 5,000-man guerrilla army and remnants of the national guard would be melded into a new armed force...