Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Winthrop Professor of History Stephen A. Thernstrom says graduates' growing prosperity makes them less concerned with political fights...
...Empirical evidence backs up the perception that students are less involved. In a poll released in March by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, 55 percent of those surveyed said the campaign was "boring" and only 25 percent termed it "exciting...
...left host-less for its later show. Rather than go with an established celebrity, Michaels decided to take a chance with O'Brien...
...marketplace has been long, winding and more than a little bit bumpy. More than a medical breakthrough, the pill is also a flash point for political dissension: The efficacy of the pill is a boon to women's health care advocates, who see RU-486 as a much-needed, less invasive alternative to surgical abortions. Abortion opponents, of course, view the pill's potency with alarm, and have urged the FDA to withhold approval of the drug...
...message. Winning with a platform of unabashed liberalia about universal health care, universal gun registration and state-funded college educations suggests that the victory was about more than money. And it's not as if his opponent, former New Jersey governor Jim Florio - who raised and spent less than $3 million - had a visibility problem. He was the devil New Jerseyans knew, and they told him where to go. In defeat, Florio called his vanquisher "a threat to democracy," but will still support Corzine against a Republican closer to Florio's own tax bracket, Bob Franks. Hardly the makings...