Word: could
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...only were there a couple of incidents in which students could easily have died [at this year's Game], but police were so tied up handling alcohol issues that their capacity to deal with other safety issues was impaired," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message...
...that has been essentially decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an unfortunate end to this turbulent process. The Florida Supreme Court's decision should have stood; it alone is the highest judge of Florida's state laws. The U.S. Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
...improving graduate students' living and working conditions. Yale officials lost a lot of credibility among graduate students by denying that problems existed and by promising changes that never took place; as a result, many graduate students who had been ambivalent about a union became convinced that only a union could bring about change. The Harvard administration should not plan to squelch a union, should one ever appear, but to address the real concerns of graduate students...
...even as he toiled unsuccessfully in West Texas oilfields, he could not escape the political heritage of his family. In 1988, with his father in the midst of a presidential race, Bush returned to the political stage and was devastated by his father's defeat four years later...
Facing the formidable experience of Vice President Al Gore '69 and an election that easily could have prevailed against him, Bush clearly emerged last night as the unquestioned president-elect. But it was a triumph that, even a few years ago, his closest supporters could only have dreamed...