Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...good thing the process has come to an end, though it is unfortunate that all of the votes did not get counted," she said...
...Even though Gore conceded tonight, the fallout from the recount controversy may sustain political opposition to Bush, particularly among partisans of the vice president...
...lack of prescription coverage in their health insurance. Although I believe that a TF union provides an important way to reach progress on these issues, I acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree about the need for or advisability of such a union. What disappointed me at Yale, though, was the way those opposed to a union expressed their disagreement. The negative environment I described above did not need to accompany the union drive; it stemmed from attempts to shut down the union, not from attempts to organize it. Intimidation and coercion, not lux et veritas, seemed to be the university...
...ostensible justification for severely restricting who Harvard sends on presumably rests on the University's desire to ensure high standards among endorsees--though OCS has never explicitly addressed why it turns away so many seemingly qualified applicants, other than to say that the Rhodes process is inherently demanding and that only the most qualified prevail. It seems reasonable to allow institutions the chance to veto applicants with substantial disciplinary records or whose academic and extracurricular credentials are so lacking that their application would prove an embarrassment for all involved. Outside of this criterion, it seems unreasonable for Harvard to exclude...
...irony is that Moscow is trying to build alliances to oppose the U.S., but they're not learning the lessons from Yugoslavia. There they tried to support Milosevic even though the Serb people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...