Word: blocs
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...voice of an angel and the face of a Hobbit," the Australian judge told Nilsen. "If they had Middle-earth Idol, you'd be it." Still, Nilsen beat out American Idol's Kelly Clarkson and nine others. We assume American Idol washout Justin Guarini and the potent Scandinavian voting bloc hit the phone lines hard...
...there. "The Hague looks like a game to me. I will have these cases treated by our courts." He talks of Serbia's foreign interests lying not only in Washington and Brussels but also in Moscow, Beijing and with "our old ties" in the so-called nonaligned countries, a bloc co-founded in the 1960s by former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. Like the Radicals, Kostunica has nothing but scorn for the country's leaders, whom he accuses of "destroying the institutions of state" and subverting the rule of law. Kostunica has ruled out a coalition with the Radicals...
...time, Reaganomics was shutting down factories and U.S.-backed puppet regimes in South America were slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians, particularly Catholic priests and nuns whose teachings were seen as radical propaganda. Yet somehow Reagan managed to convince a large voting bloc to ignore everything it had always considered central to its politics—labor, wealth distribution and a holistic understanding of the “right to life” that includes the death penalty, war and international aid—in favor of one issue. And if you think that the votes of Catholics don?...
...least two things need to change. First, the two-thirds vote requirement is too stringent, and should be relaxed. The typical council representative during the last general election was elected with two or three dozen first-place votes out of a turnout of about 100. A suitably intransigent voting bloc could collude to keep their favored representative in office even if the majority of the district desired otherwise, but could not muster the requisite supermajority...
...temptation for all nations, not just the U.S. What the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and the International Criminal Court are to America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their deficit spending below 3% of GDP in order to stave off inflation. But what's a sacrosanct international agreement when the national interest comes calling? France and Germany suffer from close-to-zero growth and close-to-double...