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...just in these two states but throughout the country continues to be dominated by concern about the economy, not surprisingly," Gibbs said. With the Administration devoting considerable energy to hailing the success of its economic stimulus package, it's clear that Obama's team considers the economy the fulcrum on which the midterms pivot. "At the end of the day," says Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokeswoman Deirdre Murphy, "it's going to come down to whether they want to go with Democrats who have produced steady economic progress or go with Republicans whose failed policies got us into this mess...
...wall came down" focused strictly on the fall of the Wall, as though that were the fulcrum of the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Reagan's insistence on putting short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, against all foreign-affairs wisdom, broke the will of the Soviets for a renewed arms race and - more than anything else - brought down the Wall. David Sweet, BUDA, TEXAS...
...Wall Came Down" focused strictly on the fall of the wall, as though that were the fulcrum of the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Reagan's insistence on putting short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, against all foreign-affairs wisdom, broke the will of the Soviets for a renewed arms race and--more than anything else--brought down the wall...
Pavón, the qualifying region’s top scorer, served as a fulcrum for the nation’s renewed sense of unity. Pavón is of Garifuna descent, an ethnic mix of Carib, Arawak, and West African peoples that has been marginalized and discriminated against in Honduran society...
...month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which has resulted in the killing of more than half of the 20 targeted al-Qaeda leaders. Several...