Word: toward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, the credibility that can be afforded by popular elections is far from guaranteed. The low voter turnout that has plagued previous council elections is indicative of the disconnect between the candidates and the student body. It signifies a lack of confidence in council leadership and a dangerous apathy toward the role student government occupies within the College community. At best, popular elections have only brought the council one step closer to a goal that still remains beneath the horizon...
...backlash in the streets started Tuesday morning, several hours before more than 25,000 largely peaceful marchers headed from a union-backed rally at Memorial Stadium, near the Space Needle, toward the shops and hotels of downtown. Many thousands of other protesters were already converging there, some engaged in peaceful sit-ins that blocked traffic. Things got serious when scattered groups of self-described Black Block anarchists, wearing all-black outfits with handkerchiefs or hoods covering their faces, started to smash windows and trash businesses, giving special attention to companies such as the Gap and Nike that have been accused...
...Microsoft case. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson last month appointed Posner to try to mediate the case, and the action has now moved from Jackson's courthouse in Washington to Chicago, where Posner is presiding over closed-door conferences intended to push Microsoft and the Justice Department toward settlement. It's a daunting task: the government seems to want a lot more than Microsoft is willing to give up. But if anyone can get an agreement, it may be the brilliant and insanely workaholic Posner...
Between McCain and Bush lie some real differences in both style and substance. McCain is less guarded about American pre-eminence and the role of America's "founding ideals" in foreign policy. Last week he outlined a more aggressive policy of "rollback" toward rogue states like Yugoslavia, Iraq and North Korea. But like Bush, McCain is a free-trade internationalist who believes the U.S. should participate in multilateral organizations and work with allies. McCain is more openly critical of China, calling its leaders "determined ... ruthless defenders of their regime"; but he and Bush support Chinese membership in the World Trade...
...need to worry a lot more about the effects of drinking and driving this New Year's Eve than they do about Y2K," says TIME techonolgy writer Joshua Quittner. And that's exactly the kind of attitude the White House wants us to keep in mind as we inch toward the big moment: Computers crash, bags are lost and airplanes are late every day of the year. And there's no reason to think that New Year's Eve will be any different. Unless, of course, the rigorous preparations of the last year have smoothed our operating systems...