Word: blocs
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...Christmas." The Republican nominee, John McCain, has refused to make the pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, telling the Focus on the Family leader to come to him instead. But the biggest problem is that Democrats - and Barack Obama in particular - are determined to make a play for a bloc of voters over whom Dobson and his colleagues have traditionally maintained exclusive control. And those voters seem willing to listen...
China is hardly the only country to build a national sports machine. In fact, the nation's athletics factories were modeled after the old Soviet-style system, which during the cold war churned out limber Romanian gymnasts and a fleet of doped-up East German swimmers. But the East bloc is long gone--and with it, sports by diktat. Today China is one of the few nations, apart from the likes of North Korea and Cuba, to commit so many state resources to athletics. While some young Chinese choose to attend sports schools, others, like Cloud, are little more than...
Perhaps with November in mind, both campaigns have focused attention on the state's seven Indian reservations, a crucial bloc that helped narrowly defeat incumbent GOP Sen. Conrad Burns in 2006. Both expressed support for improved federal-tribal relations and medical care. Clinton visited the Flathead Reservation, and daughter Chelsea met Thursday with a group of state tribal leaders. Obama was adopted into the Crow Tribe by the Black Eagle family just before he spoke to 3,000 supporters at the reservation's Veterans Park a few miles from the site of Custer's Last Stand. He's hoping that...
...Houghton would side with two of his colleagues who believed Summers’ position was untenable, creating the bloc that forced Summers from office. Houghton then flew down to Florida with Corporation fellow Nannerl O. Keohane, where the two convinced Bok to return to lead Harvard...
...original invitee was Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland’s Solidarity Movement—the first anti-communist trade union in the Soviet bloc...