Word: elections
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ortega insists he's come a long way from the firebrand Marxist he was in the 1980s, and his campaign was focused on peace and reconciliation. He spent his first days as president-elect meeting with business leaders, bankers and foreign investors, asking for cooperation in building a new economic model focused on eradicating poverty in a system based on rewarding the risk of private capital...
...reason for this curious gathering is not hard to figure out. Muslim Americans in Minnesota and throughout the nation have been forging a coalition with liberals on issues like those articulated by Congressman-elect Ellison - universal health insurance, tougher environmental regulation, opposition to the Patriot Act and an immediate end to the war in Iraq...
...court, and we obviously didn’t live up to the hype.”Harvard will begin its attempt to overcome the loss of quality personnel and prove the pollsters were mistaken at home versus Maine on Saturday. In addition to returning starters Cusworth, Housman and captain-elect Goffredo, the Crimson is expected to go with sophomore Andrew Pusar at the three guard and sophomore Evan Harris at power forward.“The gap between [Pusar and Harris] and any people that we bring off the bench in those positions is very small right...
Because an uninformed public—or worse, a misinformed one—leads to a less than ideal voting public and because this public has the responsibility to elect a governing body, there is a strong argument to fix the problem of unreliable media...
...Since it came just minutes after Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi called for new civilian leadership at the Pentagon, the announcement of Rumsfeld's firing might be seen as an act of political expediency, a sacrificial offering to the newly powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill. And it was. But the truly expedient thing to do - the move that might actually have helped Bush and congressional Republicans when it mattered, before Election Day - would have been to fire Rumsfeld last week, last month or last year...