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...Iowa for the last year and all eyes now turn to New Hampshire," campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle said in a statement issued shortly before Clinton took the stage. "This race begins tonight and ends when Democrats throughout America have their say. Our campaign was built for a marathon and we have the resources to run a national race in the weeks ahead...
...Edwards is wasting no time in getting his point across. On the eve of the caucus, he is in the midst of a 36-hour barnstorm across Iowa that he is calling the "Marathon for the Middle Class." Along the way, he is holding 16 events all focused on this central idea that he is the only candidate with enough fight to take on the greedy lobbyists that are stealing America's future...
...campaign is certainly unique. Ever since Christmas, Huckabee has spent as much time posing for eye-catching photographs and chatting with reporters as he has meeting with actual caucus-goers. He dressed in orange to pose with a shotgun and hunt pheasants in Osceola. He trained for the Boston Marathon in 16-degree temperatures, dressed in Hawkeye colors. He spent about an hour getting a cut and shave at a downtown Des Moines barber. He is a photographer's best friend...
...pouring over the border to bargain hunt, and the unemployment rate hit a 33-year low of 5.8% in October, owing to gains in the natural resource and service sectors. But the world's eighth largest economy has lost 329,800 manufacturing jobs since the Canadian dollar began its marathon climb five years ago. From an all-time low of 62¢ in 2002, the turbocharged loonie shot past the U.S. greenback for the first time in nearly 31 years this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety...
...Every year in late December, the ministers meet for a marathon session to decide the following year's fishing quotas. The European Commission typically points to scientific evidence showing a collapse in key catches, and suggests that quotas should be slashed across the board. And just as predictably, individual governments within the E.U. ignore these proposals, and raise the quotas - usually around 50% higher...