Word: co-opt
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...during a typical two-week period in 2002, according to a National College Health Assessment survey. That only steels their minoritarian dash. After all, what better way to drown dorky Harvard stereotypes—and dorkier Harvard realities—than to ape our non-Ivy League peers and co-opt the carouser’s cachet...
...record industry needed to strike a deal with Napster to co-opt its user base into a high quality pay-for-play service. Now that they have forced the users into a plethora of decentralized services, there is no good solution left. The recording industry will now continue to hemmorhage money for quite some time. James Sweet Rochester...
...likely to put up a vigorous fight if the University attempts to co-opt its athletic buldings and fields—prime Allston real estate—for a professional school...
...afraid to take unpopular positions. Furthermore, unlike his father, this Bush is a political animal. He has a clever team. If the Democrats do happen to find a winning issue, you can be sure that Karl Rove, the President's strategist, will figure out a way to trump or co-opt it (as he did with education and Medicare prescription-drug benefits in the election of 2000). And the Democrats enter the fray with all the shape and substance of fog. "People have no idea what we stand for," says Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. "They have a vague sense...
Chopra added that an increase in funding from Summers raises worries that the administration might “co-opt the event even more...