Word: householder
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...1970s, a party nominee who reaches the five percent threshold in the general election qualifies his party to receive federal funding for its candidates. Though federal funding may not be enough to keep pace with Clinton and Obama, it would easily be enough to make the Libertarian candidate a household name. Part of the problem with building up confidence in third parties is that the two major parties have a stranglehold on the media, and it is in their self-interest to advance the view that third parties are not worth a rational person’s time. Leading...
...Robbins are two of Hollywood's most talented actors. What is a typical dinner conversation like in the Robbins-Sarandon household? -Ana Aponte, San Juan, P.R.It's mostly catching up with the kids. When we have friends over, the kids always bet on how long it will take before we turn to politics. We always forget, and then they say, "That was fast-only one minute and two seconds...
...Most Turks have long suspected the existence of a covert web of elements within the security forces and bureaucracy who act outside the law to uphold their own political ends. There is even a household name for it: the "deep state," referring to a state within the state...
...Strasbourg-based court ruled Tuesday that a plaintiff identified only as Emmanuelle B. had been the victim of illegal discrimination when successive French authorities denied her request to adopt a child in 1998. The court faulted the French courts for citing "the lack of a paternal referent in the household", and said the woman's homosexuality had been "if not explicit, at least implicit" in France's rejection of her adoption request. The Court judged France had violated the European Convention on Human Rights - to which France and the other 46 Council of Europe members are signatories - by failing...
...already, thanks to the collapse of the housing industry. There are trouble signs in just about every economic indicator: tapped-out consumers spending less and unemployment and inflation creeping up. All this is layered on top of worries over rising health-care costs, oil prices that have the typical household spending $1,300 more on gasoline a year than it did five years ago. Then there is the growing realization that globalization has given China and India some control over America's economic destiny, which means the future might feel uncertain even to voters who are doing just fine...