Word: blocs
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...missile defense technology with the rest of Europe (NATO allies included), opening the possibility of creating a missile shield for the entire continent. Such an agreement would essentially destroy NATO, and divide the world along Cold War-type lines. But this time around it would not be Eastern Bloc vs. the West; it would be Europe vs. the United States...
...could have prevented as many as 500,000 workplace injuries a year - most due to repetitive stress. Republicans voted en masse to revoke the regulations, which they argued created undue burdens, primarily financial, for businesses. After exhaustive lobbying by Majority Whip (and repeal effort sponsor) Don Nickles, the GOP bloc was padded by votes from six moderate Democrats, including high-profile consensus builders John Breaux and Mary Landrieu, both of Louisiana...
...nothing unethical by attending two sessions with the leaders who sought their pardons. The first took place in the Rockland County village of New Square last August, while she was running for the Senate. State party operatives thought the tiny community--which had often voted in a bloc in the past--was a promising one for Hillary in her race against Republican Rick Lazio. Following Hasidic custom, Hillary covered her head and chatted about the village's health-care services from across a coffee table, on which a tall bouquet of flowers served as the traditional screen that Hasidim require...
Libya has pulled off something of a diplomatic coup. Catching more powerful rivals like Nigeria and Egypt by surprise, Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi's regime has quickly marshaled many of the nations of the continent behind a plan to establish an African Union. The proposed political and economic bloc, which is set to replace the 38-year-old Organization of African Unity, is designed to more effectively manage the continent's affairs as well as its relations with the rest of the world. If all goes to plan, the Union's executive council, parliament, court of justice, peacekeeping force and financial...
...ANWR coastal plain, north of the Brooks Range and east of the Canning River--a section known as Area 1002. Murkowski's legislation, like the Bush recommendations that will follow it, faces stiff opposition in the evenly divided Senate, not just from Democrats but from a key bloc of at least eight Republicans--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, James Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Gordon Smith of Oregon--who have the power to defeat the bill. (Only three Democratic Senators, Louisiana...