Word: contestation
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...also promotes testing and implementation of renewable energy technologies on our campus,” she said. For each pledge, Harvard will contribute $1.50 toward renewable energy projects on campus. The pledge rates of each Harvard school will help determine the location of the funded project, and a contest between undergraduate houses will award points for the Green Cup. Dunster House is currently in the lead with 49 percent of its residents having already signed the pledge. “It’s a great way to get your House excited to talk about sustainability,” said...
...contest reprised the 2002 election for that seat, when Shaheen—a former governor of the state—lost to then-Representative Sununu as Republicans gained seats nationwide...
...state, the GOP was optimistic about New Hampshire for 2008 after John McCain captured the party's nomination. The state has been good to the Arizona senator, who blew out Bush in the 2000 primary by 18 points, and revived his campaign by winning this year's contest by 5 points over Mitt Romney. New Hampshire voters tend to be fiscally conservative-the state is home to the Concord Coalition, an anti-deficit non-profit-but fairly progressive on social issues. From that perspective, McCain seemed like a welcome change from Bush: a fiscal conservative who wouldn't focus much...
...Obama's schedule speaks louder than any poll about the opportunities he senses in the electoral map, even as a number of late polls show the contest tightening slightly. On Saturday night, he held a rally in conservative Springfield, Mo., packing tens of thousands onto a high school football field in a part of the state that went nearly 2 to 1 for George W. Bush in the last election. On Sunday night, the campaign announced that Obama will make his final stop of the campaign on Election Day in Indiana, a state that has voted Republican in each...
...Considering the record high levels of interest in this year's contest, the network that first declares the new President will find the achievement to be an even sweeter spot on its résumé. At the same time, any projection gaffe - sorry, McCain in fact lost Missouri - will be more difficult to live down. The stakes are high enough to give any seasoned election vet the jitters, and this year's expected high turnout could overwhelm the polling stations and complicate the process even more. "I'm always nervous," says Sheldon Gawiser, director of elections for NBC News...