Word: heartlands
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...Western nation ... In keeping with British tradition, Thatcher will be addressed simply as 'Prime Minister.' Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paperwork. The government of a determined woman whose work ethic had been forged in the heartland of England was taking shape with no delay...
...that the battle will be a decisive success. The wait leaves the troops embittered, their momentum lost to what they see as political calculations. "This is turning into a goat f___," bemoans an angry Green Beret. By the time al-Jaafari approves the dreaded assault into al-Qaeda's heartland, it fizzles. Not a hostile shot is fired, not a single enemy fighter is found. Safe houses and weapons caches are empty, cleansed like an operating room. Only one blackened corpse, left rotting for days, is found. "They've even removed their dead," said a Green Beret, not really believing...
...brand, single-price-point strategy. Judging from the reaction of Kayla Sharrock, 19, a sophomore at Capital University who went shopping at the Columbus Bigelow on a recent Thursday, the strategy may just be working. She used to go to Bath & Body Works all the time when it exuded heartland hominess. "I was a junkie since I was 12," says Sharrock. But over the years she got tired of products that barely changed from season to season, and she eventually drifted away. Bigelow has brought her back. "They have the stuff here that the fashion magazines talk about," says Sharrock...
...were forbidden?and many families still prohibit wives and daughters from showing their faces in public. Yet 565 women candidates have had their photos placed on the ballots, even though they have to go to extraordinary lengths to get their messages across. More than one candidate in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar is campaigning door-to-door in a burqa, the head-to-toe veil that conceals even the face...
...believe it would lead to the breakup of Iraq, but they're also worried that if the Shi'ites and the Kurds control their own regions, they'll horde the oil revenues rather than share them with the oil-parched central part of the country - the so-called Sunni heartland...