Word: basic
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...representing all people here, regardless if they can vote or not. The basic reality is that if parents can't vote, the school committee doesn't pay attention to them," Sullivan said...
...This gives parents a voice and encourages their interest and participation in their kids' education and the election process, getting them involved at the basic level of civic society," he said...
Lauded by some council members as "awesome" and "ingenious," the plan is more appropriately called pitiful. That the supposed governing body of the undergraduate population has been reduced to collecting garbage in order purchase the basic technological equipment that it needs to function is not only degrading to council members, but damages the council in the eyes of the student body as a whole. Indeed, it is disgraceful that the council has not been financially responsible enough to set aside funds for its own technological upkeep--especially with high speed personal computers selling for as little as $400 on discount...
Last year she and a roommate headed an initiative called the "Mather House Creed" which set out basic principles to help build a sense of community at Mather...
...results hours before the polls close so that television networks can plan their coverage, which is, in a word, so much b.s. - nobody needs that much time to rehearse "we're projecting a Democratic win in Massachusetts." The real reason is that not to release early violates the basic raison d'être of journalists, who live for those rare and ego-inflating moments when you're the one in on the secret and you decide when to let everyone know. And it's going to take a lot more than Florida to wean reporters off that...