Word: annelies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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McCain campaign advisor Charles Black has been touting a much closer race - reportedly within one or two points - based on internal party polling in Iowa. But J. Ann Selzer, a leading local pollster whose company Selzer & Co.Inc of Des Moines, does the Register's poll, is skeptical. "I say show me the numbers. It sounds impossible to me," says Selzer. "I would question who are they counting as a likely voter, whether they are weighting by party ID and those weights might be outweighed. There just isn't a scenario that makes it look like this is very close...
...activity in the market was happening in stocks that were slumping. Their conclusion: The current market rally is a result of a lack of sellers and not a stampede of buyers. "Sellers are moving away from the market and that's why stocks are headed up," says Mary Ann Bartels, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch. "We have seen this before in other rallies this year, and what happens is the market can't continue to go up without buyers...
...Obama may be the man of the hour, or of the year, but his biography is defined by the women in his family. Ann Dunham was the "mother from Kansas" who married the man from Kenya. Michelle Williams Obama, the candidate's wife, has become an important, increasingly warming voice on the campaign stump. His daughters Malia and Sasha stole the show the opening night of the Democratic National Convention...
...against her parents' wishes, married him in 1940. When he enlisted in the Army during World War II, she got a job on a Wichita assembly line making Boeing B-29s. Their daughter was born in 1942, and because Stanley had wanted a boy, they named the girl Stanley Ann. Over the next two decades, Dunham moved at least five times - always in pursuit of her husband's next adventure as a salesman. In 1960 the Dunhams moved to Honolulu, and a year later, Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born...
...suppliers or from the $700 billion in federal assistance that Congress approved to bail out struggling banks. GM wants the money to come from the $700 billion and to save the $25 billion to pay for new vehicle development, noted Sean McAlinden of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich...