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by Anthony Brancato August 23, 2003
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Al Gore got half a million more popular votes than George W. Bush in the 2000 election, but since Bush won more electoral votes that sent Bush to the White House and left Gore to sniff a bicycle seat.
by Anthony Brancato August 23, 2003
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by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003
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At the center of the eighth circle is a deep well, at the bottom of which is found the ninth circle, known as Cocytus.
by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003
Get the Cocytus mug.Gentrification; i.e., the displacement of lower-class residents of a neighborhood (esp. one located in or near the center of a large city) by upper-class residents (a back-formation of "putrefaction;" used contemptuously by the phenomenon's detractors)
Some long-time residents of San Francisco's Mission District have taken to vandalizing the cars of "yuppies" to protest the ongoing "gentrefaction" of their neighborhood.
by Anthony Brancato February 19, 2005
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by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003
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After 1957, the U.S. birth rate (per 1,000 population) declined for eleven consecutive years - the longest baby bust on record.
by Anthony Brancato April 19, 2003
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