Forty-one percent of U.S. adults use the majority of their vacation budgets on obligation trips such as weddings, holiday gatherings and reunions, according to a July Hotwire survey.

CNN: Is obligation gobbling up your vacation?

In 2006 and 2008, sixteen Democrats entered the Senate, giving the Party its current majority of fifty-nine to forty-one (counting two independents).

NEWYORKER: The Empty Chamber

In the early nineteen-sixties, two psychologists, David Palermo and James Jenkins, began amassing a huge table of word associations, the first thoughts that come to mind when people are asked to reflect on a particular word. (They interviewed more than forty-five hundred subjects.) Palermo and Jenkins soon discovered that the vast majority of these associations were utterly predictable.

NEWYORKER: Groupthink

Forty-five of the fifty states in the US are members of the CCSS initiative and a majority of states have adopted the standards for mathematics and English language arts that were released in 2010.

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