Word: extractive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...always considerable pressure on the Supreme Court, in very important cases, to rise above--or at least appear to rise above--political divisions. In Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case striking down racial segregation in public schools, Chief Justice Earl Warren worked mightily behind the scenes to extract a unanimous decision. When the Supreme Court first heard the Florida election dispute, it issued a ruling in a 9-0 vote vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision and directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. And when the Justices took...
About the only thing the Harvard men's hockey team failed to extract out of its trip to upstate New York this weekend was revenge...
...eccentric millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40% of the vote--and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially when the final prize might go to the candidate who came in second in the first round...
...millionaires to jump into presidential contests. The multiplication of splinter parties would make it hard for major-party candidates to win popular-vote majorities. Cumulating votes from state to state, they could force a runoff if no candidate got more than 40 percent of the vote - and then could extract concessions from the major parties. The prospect of double national elections could be alarming to a bored and weary electorate, especially when the final prize might go to the candidate who came in second in the first round...
...crew strike the set, leaving behind a naked light bulb on a tall pole--a "ghost light," meant to ward off spirits. That image--the idea of the theater as a welcoming place where the light never goes out--sparked in him "the fantasy that I might extract some glittering consolation prize for being different and alone." Rich became a theater geek nonpareil, an awkward Jewish kid who, making his Bar Mitzvah, recognized the designer of the temple's ark from his set-design credits in Playbill...