Word: lock
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...Republican lock on Evangelicals may be breaking. The percentage of white Evangelicals who self-identify as Republicans has declined from roughly 50% in 2004 to about 44% this past February, according to Green. Now the number is closer to 40% as more Evangelicals choose to label themselves independents. "There is a loosening of the Republican coalition, particularly among people under 30," Green says, "but it is not yet a movement toward the Democrats. It is a small but real change...
...made an unprecedented presidential appearance at a meeting of European Union economy and finance ministers in Brussels on Monday, that forum declared its support for Strauss-Kahn to replace current IMF director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however, Sarkozy gives little sign...
...calm down," he shouts at the man at least five times. Later he says: "You can't back down on these guys. It just gets worse. I would have pepper-sprayed the big guy." Dealing with the incident has taken five patrol cars and a lock-up van; the effort brings calm to the street, but the violence continues to spread across the suburb like a brush fire. Within minutes, reports of three more stabbings in the same district blare out of the police radios...
Seeing a budding star first, though, doesn't mean he's a lock to sign. The next year, in 2003, Nike invited Yi to its annual, one week "Big Man" camp, where again he impressed scouts who, as the NBA has gone ever more global, watch these camps with intense interest. Reebok had signed Yao - a huge coup in the global marketing war - but by the fall of 2003, Nike struck back and signed Yi to a six year promotional deal for an undisclosed...
...much of their advertising targets kids,” Brandt said. “The industry has found out how to lock into the heads of young people...