Word: contestable
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...Helensville, west of Auckland, in 2002. Behind the wheel of a musty camper van emblazoned with his smiling face, the personable Key is talking about the quirks of his rural electorate by the sea, with its mix of farmers, retirees, Auckland workers and alternative lifestylers - and about the main contest. "We have to create a bigger economy, not just change the way we slice it up." Yes, the tax package he designed is offering big tax cuts. No, the government won't have to borrow to pay for them. "Sure someone might be $50 better off per week...
Saturday night, Ridolfi led his Holy Cross squad against Harvard in the final contest of the New England Challenge. The Crusaders fell to the Crimson 3-0, giving Harvard the Challenge title in a tiebreaker...
With time winding down at the end of the first half, sophomore forward Becky Smith collected the ball near the endline and sent a cross towards the goal. Merritt rose above her defender and headed the ball into the corner of the goal for the only score of the contest...
...country's history. Not surprisingly, he won hands down with 88% of the vote. He could rely on the entrenched election machine of his ruling National Democratic Party, as well as the weakness of smaller opposition parties, which learned only in February that he was allowing a contest. But voter apathy as well as cries of foul play undercut Mubarak's effort to portray the election as a showcase for democratic change. Egypt's Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (icem) issued a critical report citing violations from ballot stuffing to vote buying to voter intimidation. The committee slammed election officials...
...from ballot stuffing to vote buying to intimidation inside polling stations - cast a pall over Mubarak?s majority. Repeated cries of foul play raised questions about whether the crucial elections for Egypt?s 454-seat parliament, due to be held in the next two months, would be an honest contest. After most of its monitors were barred from observing Wednesday?s post-election vote count, Egypt?s Independent Committee for Election Monitoring (ICEM) declared: ?No election can be called free, fair and transparent if voters have been denied the right to monitor and scrutinize the process by which their vote...