Word: battleground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House Government Reform Committee, claims that Bush Administration cabinet officers have "routinely flaunted" the rules governing the use of private planes. Traveling on private planes and helicopters, he complains, always seems to spike around election time. During the 2004 campaign, travel on private aircraft to cities in battleground states "was over four times higher than in non-election years," says Waxman. In October 2004, for example, then Education Secretary Rodney Paige spent $50,290 on private jet travel in three key states - Pennsylvania, Washington and Missouri - to plug George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind program...
...post-perestroika Russian army was unable to break Chechen will. Forced by demoralized soldiers and angry public opinion, President Boris Yeltsin signed a ceasefire. The second, ongoing Chechen War began under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, with a much stronger military. In a battleground too obscure and too dangerous for Western journalists, the military launched total war against the rebellious Chechens. In order to keep Putin’s popularity ratings high, the Kremlin tried very hard to make Chechnya a blind spot in their media...
...site's ability to attract small advertisers is beginning to get the big guys' attention. Neighborhood info has become a major battleground for Google and Yahoo!, which draw like numbers of local searches every month. To capitalize on the primacy of that battle, Jordan Rohan, an Internet analyst with RBC Capital Markets, suggests Yelp sell itself...
...campaign trail, they just might rally around their old general, who will be looking to cap his own hardscrabble journey from political pariah to rehabbed revolutionary. That general, of course, is none other than former Speaker Gingrich, who has been spotted in Iowa, New Hampshire and other battleground states for more than a year now, taking potshots at the Establishment he helped create and rearming himself to storm the next barricade. TIME POLL THE PRESIDENT...
...Year Williams plays a cable show comedian named Tom Dobbs - sort of a Jon Stewart on speed - spouting liberal-minded socio-political criticism. One of his fans proposes that he run for President, and before you know it he?s on the ballot in enough battleground states to pose a threat to the establishment candidates. He devastates them in a televised debate and wins the election...