Word: gives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead the student government. At the time, this great experiment in representative democracy was drastic, but necessary. "Popular elections will galvanize students, make them informed and interested," predicted former council president David M. Hanselman '94-'95. More importantly, insisted then-president Joshua D. Liston '95, the new system would give the council what it currently lacked--credibility among students and administrators...
...onto the council's electronic voting program this week, they will cast an important vote on the issues of council downsizing and hiking the termbill. On both these issues we urge students to vote "yes." A smaller council--one as small as 50 members--will create contested races and give the body slightly more legitimacy. Furthermore, more funds will better equip the organization to perform its most central duty of doling out grants for student organizations...
...weren't ready to give in, so we turned up the intensity in the end," Sarah Johnson said...
...special-influence people who run Washington know that if John McCain is President, things are going to be a lot different." But there is more to the charges than that. The whispering campaign aims to turn his story against him: he's not really like the rest of us, give him a medal but don't make him President. "I attribute it all to the abuse," says a former Senator after cataloging McCain's explosions. "He has a very short fuse and blows quickly," adds a Senate staff member, part of the faceless choir that has haunted McCain for weeks...
...Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. "If the image of a child can be effective in campaigns like muscular dystrophy, then it can make people aware of Castro's victims," says Ninoska Perez-Castellon, spokeswoman of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. "Elian's mother lost her life to give him a future." The foundation insists the boy should live with his relatives in Miami, where he was photographed with local politicians like Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen as he played with walkie-talkies and other toys they showered...