Word: deadness
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...climbed up on a riser, took a microphone and thanked the crowd for their loyalty. "It's very nostalgic for me," McCain said, flanked by his wife Cindy and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling. "Twice you have taken my political career from what many thought was a political dead end to victory." He humbly asked for a third miracle...
...Republican bastion hasn't voted for a Democrat since LBJ in 1964. So the very fact that the McCain campaign felt it had to dispatch Palin to rally its base showed just how vulnerable the GOP is this year. "Everything is showing this thing is absolutely in a dead heat, and suddenly, Indiana makes a difference," says Ed Feigenbaum, publisher of Indiana Legislative Insight, a non-partisan chronicle of the state's politics...
...Despite Indiana's presidential voting record, it's hard to predict the outcome of this year's race, which right now looks like a virtual dead heat in the polls. Much of it will depend on how much both slates of candidates can get their supporters to actually show up at the polls. That's why on a recent Wednesday night, Chuck Stouder, a 58-year-old RV plant worker, walked from house to house in a leafy, Elkhart County subdivision. His target: Democrats, and voters who had yet to choose a presidential candidate. Some folks didn't bother opening...
...short sales--that is, selling below the mortgage amount--and doing some workouts. For owners, buyers and policymakers, such signs of a recovery raise a big question: Will a recession that is gaining momentum break through housing's floor again? In other words, is this real estate's dead-cat bounce...
Tony Hillerman won the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Best Novel of the year (Dance Hall of the Dead) in 1974, and in 1991 he received the highest award the organization can bestow: the title Grand Master for lifetime achievement. Yet the honor that brought him greatest pleasure was given to him by the Navajo Tribal Council when they named him a Special Friend of the Dineh (Navajo...