Word: act
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...holidays is over and we wake up in January 2001, America will have a new president, a fascinating new political scene and four years before it has to worry about holding another presidential election. Chad jokes will be so 2000, and Congress will be busy enough just trying to act civilized without giving an inch to the enemy across the aisle...
...Libya and Syria. Afghanistan is a collapsed state run by an Islamic fundamentalist militia, for whom surrendering Bin Laden - who remains a hero to the angry youth of much of the Islamic world, his image reproduced on pirated Nike T-shirts sold throughout south Asia - might feel like an act of political hari-kiri...
...when the Harvard administration decides to act tyrannically, revoking from students and alum their liberty to consume beer from kegs at a festive occasion such as the Harvard-Yale game (News, Dec. 14). As a minor I cannot drink, but I do have some thoughts on the issue...
...adds, "Indeed, the impression I get from colleagues elsewhere is that committees with students tend act in a more black-or-white way--more reluctant to sustain a charge at all, and then more inclined to respond harshly...
...Does the fact that President-elect Bush's foreign policy advisers signaled during the campaign that he'd pull U.S. troops out of the Balkans create an urgency for the Albanian separatists to act? After all, the U.S. has been the most enthusiastic backer in NATO of their demand for Kosovo's independence, which is opposed by most European NATO members...