Word: closers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wants a team to be able to compete on a budget much closer to its share of those rights. That averaged around $40 million for each team this year. In a meeting with the FIA in Geneva last month, teams agreed to a number of measures aimed at reducing expenditure starting in 2009. The cost of engines supplied to independent teams by manufacturers was reduced from around $20 million to $13 million, and teams will save money by changing engines every three races, rather than every two. More talks on lowering the cost of chassis development - which...
...Closer to home, Massachusetts’s voters banned greyhound racing. In doing so, voters sent a clear condemnation of keeping active dogs in tight wire cages for 20 or more hours a day. They also rejected the notion that a sport propped up by state-sponsored gambling (a 1986 state law granted the racetracks subsidies and tax breaks) can be a bastion of free market liberalism. The vote made Massachusetts the 35th state to no longer participate in a pastime that, with 800 injuries on this state’s tracks alone since...
...fairly small guy at 5-foot-eight and 140 pounds. I'm probably closer to five-nine. I'm not actually that short compared to a lot of guys. We have guys that are five-three, five-four, five-five...
...Back In 2006, Democratic centrist Nancy Boyda upset GOP conservative Jim Ryun in this reliably Republican district, portraying Ryun as an extremist in a Democratic year. This year, Ryun tried to reclaim his seat - but lost in the Republican primary to state treasurer Lynn Jenkins, who's a lot closer to the political center. Now Jenkins has ousted Boyda in another Democratic year, and has probably assured herself a safe seat. America has plenty of conservatives, but there are only so many places where Republicans can win by appealing exclusively to their base. (See pictures of Sarah Palin...
...remain in campaign mode until a winner is announced. However, if there's no clear-cut winner from this round of voting, a situation some local experts expect, Georgia voters will head back to the polls on December 2, in a race that could help inch the Democrats closer to a supermajority in the Senate. "In the next few weeks, Georgia will be the center of the electoral universe," says Charles S. Bullock, a political science professor at University of Georgia. "I see national Democrats and Republicans focusing their efforts here and pouring money into the state for this runoff...