Word: desertion
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...Other candidates of the left, together with the Greens, gathered nearly 27%. Just as some Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's failure in 2000, so Jospin's supporters can blame the comrades who siphoned votes away from him. Still, the question remains: Why did so many voters desert the mainstream candidates? How about: because they are bored stiff with them. Chirac first served as Prime Minister in - this is not a misprint - 1974. Jospin has been a leading light in the Socialist Party since 1973. Imagine being asked to choose, this year, between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford...
...American dependence on foreign oil. In recent months the Administration has approved plans to search for oil and gas at dozens of sites in the Lower 48 states. In January, it fast-tracked seismic exploration for oil and gas by 26-ton "thumper trucks" in Utah's Dome Plateau desert, a few miles from Arches National Park--until the Interior Department's appeals office temporarily halted the trucks, saying a more thorough assessment of environmental damage was needed. And now the Administration is considering a proposal to drill more than 50,000 methane-gas wells in Wyoming and Montana...
...home and hang out with the kids. (She has two sons with first husband Tommy Lee; Rock has a son from a previous relationship.) The two met backstage at a VH-1 concert and, after dating for a year, got engaged last week when he proposed in the desert outside Las Vegas after one of his concerts. Anderson, 34, and Rock, 31 (whose real name is Bob Ritchie), have not yet set a date. Still unresolved is whether people are more upset that she is off the market, or relieved that...
...disappointment at first. For four years she sat with her suspicion that while her manuscript sat in the Viking offices someone working for King lifted the essence of her work and copied it into Desperation, a novel about an ancient evil spirit released from a mine into a Nevada desert...
Giuliani’s speech called Israel “an oasis of freedom in a desert of totalitarianism...