Word: conventioneering
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The World Toilet Summit and Expo is like the Star Trek Convention of the waste management and sanitation world. Toilets on show run the gamut from a cardboard box complete with a hole, plastic bag and pouch of waterless magic pathogen-busting dust ($50), to a high-tech 'uber-toilet...
Obama's far from the fastest off the mark, however; in 1976, Jimmy Carter created a transition staff shortly after winning the Pennsylvania primary - well before the Democratic National Convention in July. Under Jack Watson, who had worked on Carter's successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the transition team worked throughout...
A seemingly better fit would be a run for President in 2012. Palin has the ambition for it: note her efforts to distance herself from the failing McCain campaign by criticizing the use of robocalls and the decision to pull out of Michigan and by saying that just packing her...
The verdict: food first, food compost later. Although Harvard students are avid promoters of saving the environment, as seen in their support for doing away with that silly and wasteful convention of clothes, they would still put food that ensures taste, nutrition, and survival first. Hopefully, HUDS will take up...
At the moment Lehman Brothers collapsed in September, McCain led the campaign, riding high on a post-convention bounce. But as approval of President Bush plummeted to historic lows, and the electorate rejected a tainted Republican party, McCain found himself unable to control his own destiny. In the final weeks...