Word: blocs
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...former Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, Mooers worked in the early '90s for a nonprofit agency to ease the transition to a market economy in the former Soviet bloc. Despite a background in foreign affairs, he's campaigning on domestic issues like putting more police on the streets, strengthening environmental regulation and increasing money for job training and college...
...order. Homosexuals are the objects of the most discrimination because it is much more commonly accepted in the mainstream to be openly homophobic than it is to be racist or anti-Semitic. A woman has the best chance of becoming president because of the size of the female voting bloc; when America overcomes its fear of having a woman in a position of ultimate power, maybe the American Margaret Thatcher will step forward...
...book donation, which the organizers describe as part as a crucial step for "a free and democratic Bosnia," is part of a program which combines some of the leading schools' resources with Sabre's experience bringing books to former Eastern bloc countries...
Long before last week, of course, the Clinton-Gore campaign had known it could count on the votes of the majority of members of the N.E.A. and the smaller A.F.T., a politically active bloc some 2.5 million strong that traditionally backs Democratic candidates. (Since it was established in 1972, the N.E.A. political-action committee has never endorsed a Republican for President.) But in July, Dole began attacking these organizations by name, railing against the evil influence of "the teachers' unions" much as George Bush used to invoke the A.C.L.U. During his speech to the Republican Convention in San Diego, Dole...
...Cubans, led by nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...