Word: spectrums
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With this first political defeat, Bush returned to his oil company. But the early 1980s marked a rough time for Bush's company, as declining oil prices drove down profits and forced him to merge his company with the Spectrum 7, a competitor...
...spectrum, Justin A. Barkley '02 believes the council should not be activist. At the other end, not only does Stephen N. Smith '02 think the council has a role in political issues, he has actively participated in labor protests that disrupted University offices...
...Court is also likely to struggle for some sort of unified voice in a case this important. The easiest way to do that would probably be to wash their hands of the case. If one end of the Court's philosophical spectrum can't win over the other, or at least the Kennedy-O'Connor middle, they may decide that any split decision - and the resultant politicization of America's highest arbiters - would be the worst outcome...
...Plan Colombia changes the spectrum of the conflict. The military component will affect us, but it affects us less than the guerrillas. We control about 25,000 hectares in Santander province and another 20,000 in south Bolivar - coca zones that we won in battle from the FARC and the ELN [the smaller leftist National Liberation Front]. We're not opposed to eradicating the coca fields, but as long as those crops are there, and guerrillas are nearby, we'll keep asking for a tax from the coca growers. This doesn't mean we're narcos. We don't export...
This system has several distint consequences. First, policy differences between parties are emphasized, while issues of leaders' personal character and charisma are subordinated. The result is a plethora of political parties whose positions range the political spectrum. Contrast this to the United States, where Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush had to strain and sweat during the debates to find policy differences to distinguish between them...