Word: alaska
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...campaign manager was quick to accuse the Democrat of playing the race card from "the bottom of the deck." In the short term, Obama was put on the defensive. In the long term, the move may have neutralized a potentially explosive issue for the Republicans. The indictment of Alaska Senator TedStevens imperils yet another Republican-held congressional seat. While McCain fights hard for the White House, widespread voter dissatisfaction with President Bush and his party's positions suggests Democrats may enjoy formidable majorities in both houses come January. Obama, presumably drained from months of campaigning, is using the Summer Olympics...
...runs even with, or anywhere close to, its Democratic counterpart, on the issue of which of the two parties would better handle the economy. As they have felt increasing pains at the pump this summer, voters have shown more willingness to allow drilling off U.S. shores, open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and expand drilling in Western lands - all things the Dems have opposed. "There is nothing that the Republicans are proposing that will have an impact on the price at the pump," Pelosi told reporters before adjourning Congress last week. "Yeah, 10 years from now, two cents...
...Washington A Political Veteran Indicted A federal grand jury has charged Alaska Senator Ted Stevens with concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from an Alaskan oil-infrastructure company, including major construction work on his home. Stevens, 84, was charged with seven counts of failing to report the gifts on public disclosure forms. The Senate's longest-serving Republican member, he has given up powerful posts on the Commerce and Appropriations committees while maintaining that the charges are false...
...plastic bags less than one-thousandth of an inch thick. Bhutan banned the bags on the grounds that they interfered with national happiness. Ireland has imposed a hefty 34-cent fee for each bag used. Both Uganda and Zanzibar have banned them, as have 30 villages in Alaska. Scores of countries have imposed or are considering similar measures...
...odyssey (www.silversea.com) visits 45 ports, 15 countries and both hemispheres. The trip (which kicks off March 7, 2009, and costs upwards of $55,000) starts in Los Angeles and winds up in Vancouver, stopping along the way in Tokyo when the cherry blossoms are in bloom and Alaska as it emerges from winter...