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Throughout the second period, however, the physical play escalated and the Tigers were able to gain momentum. Princeton sliced the Crimson's lead in half only two minutes into the final stanza...
This decade starts with a return to the unabashed unilateralism of the '80s. It began last year with a speech by George W. Bush proposing that the U.S. build weapons to meet American needs--and not to accommodate the complaints or gain the agreement of other countries. For 40 years we would not cut our offensive nuclear missiles except in conjunction with Soviet cuts. Bush's refreshing question was: Why? We don't need Russians cutting our offensive weapons through arms-control treaties. And we don't need Russians telling us whether or not to build defensive weapons...
...well - ones that stand to benefit the Republican party. Any ruling - which applies only to districting, not the apportionment of federal money - will mean that voter rolls in congressional districts remain tied to unadjusted census figures. If the adjusted numbers were used, Democrats and Republicans agree, Democrats could conceivably gain seats in the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives...
...That's not at all an uncommon mindset. Many of the models show that while agricultural capability is failing in parts of the tropical and sub-tropical regions, it may actually be benefited by these climate changes in parts of North America and in northern Europe. Now who could gain from that? Will the farmers gain, will the merchants of grains gain, if the people who really need the food are without resources to by it? How do you see that being globally beneficial to anyone...
...acknowledged: that in calling for recounts in specific counties, the Gore camp made a strategic blunder. Apart from fueling public suspicion that he was cherry-picking counties apparently most beneficial to his cause - a tactic that probably fueled already vociferous opposition - it also appears that he had little to gain in terms of votes by narrowing the recounts to so few counties...