Word: campaigners
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...Reportedly lost 20 pounds while canvassing for her first seat in public office during her 1985 campaign - to join the Rio Hondo Community College Board of Trustees...
...First elected to Congress in 2000 after defeating incumbent Matthew Martinez during a bitterly fought primary campaign. On election night, Martinez blasted his rival as "obnoxious" and soon afterward switched to the Republican party...
...course's content: Concerned about the influence of Holy Trinity Brompton on Britain's future ruling class, the British Humanist Association recently partnered with Richard Dawkins, secularist Oxford professor and author of The God Delusion, to raise funds for advertisements to counter the Alpha course's own advertising campaign, with posters on buses carrying an inscription with a similar font to the Alpha's posters: "There is probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," they state. Within a few weeks, the fund raised $180,000 after setting a target of just...
India has been trying to build toward 10 million foreign tourist visits in 2010, the year New Delhi hosts the Commonwealth Games. It is an ambitious goal: this year's statistic is just about half that. The 'Incredible India' campaign, launched in 2002, has spent millions of dollar advertising India as a land of great diversity, offering beaches and ski slopes, teeming with man-made and natural wonders. Last year foreign tourists spent over $10 billion in the country. But since last month's attacks, in which foreigners were among the more than 180 people killed, about a dozen countries...
...Vilsack has never lost an election. He was reportedly the 2004 short list of possible vice presidential candidates to run with John Kerry. Vilsack was the first Democrat to enter the most recent presidential campaign, but he dropped out after just several months, saying he couldn't compete with the fundraising ability of other candidates. He quickly endorsed Hillary Clinton and became a national co-chair of her campaign for the Democratic nomination. Despite Vilsack's support, Clinton lost the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama...