Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that dependence, Japan is the wheeler-dealer of the world energy trade. Oil is oil to the Japanese; it matters not who sells it or where it comes from, so long as it keeps flowing. Though such an attitude can be partly excused because oil is Japan's lifeblood, it has sometimes offended Westerners...
...absence. She immediately found herself in the midst of an angry controversy about whether or not RUS had a right to exist. The issue had been raised in 1979, when the now-defunct Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted to revoke RUS's right to its financial lifeblood, the $5 term bill fee charged to every woman undergraduate at that time. Radcliffe President Matina Horner rejected the CHUL vote, forcing a confrontation...
Taxes are, after all, not a choice but a necessity, both the essential duty of citizenship and the lifeblood of the community. Granted that a large share of the taxpayer's tattered dollar goes to pay for myriad blessings that he does not think...
Washington and his supporters succeded in cleverly out-Daleying Daley and Byrne. A machine's lifeblood is votes--getting registered voters to vote, and non-registered voters t register. With a massive voter registration campaign backed by Operation PUSH's Rev. Jesse Jackson and Black community leaders. Washington's troops dramatically increased the bloc of Black voters. In the 1979 Democratic primary, 24 percent of Chicago voters were Black. In last Tuesday's primary, the number of Black voters rose to 31 percent...
...including withdrawal of our delegates." Colantuono is, of course, correct, and he and the council's other delegates should boycott subsequent meetings of the student faculty committees if efforts at opening the sessions fail. Harvard's first student government with a shot at legitimacy needs accountability as its lifeblood...