Word: northerner
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...lost roughly two-thirds of its value since hitting its peak last October. Even the Japanese developer of the Shanghai World Financial Center admits that a real estate slide has affected tenancy, with just 45% of the tower currently occupied. The hosting of the Olympics by Shanghai's northern rival added insult to injury, even if local papers hastened to note that Shanghai's athletes broke more world records than those from any other Chinese city...
...which often asked for permission to create—and then dismantle—large structures on private property. “Running Fence,” one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earlier projects, featured an 18-foot-high curtained fence running 24 miles through northern California. To obtain permission for the project, the artists negotiated contracts with 59 cattle ranchers. “I remember I made a few boo-boos the first few days,” Jeanne-Claude said in a clip from a documentary that was shown at the event...
...other states, Montana and Georgia, are on life support. The choice of Palin not only crushed Obama's hope of winning the Frontier State - his campaign has withdrawn most of its staff and ceased advertising there - but it also caused repercussions in North Dakota, another hockey-crazed northern state where snow-mobile racing and moose burgers apparently resonate. The Obama campaign announced this week that it is redeploying its North Dakota staff - estimated in some press reports to be more than 50 people...
...Although his enormous fund-raising still gives Obama more routes to the White House than McCain, the contracting playing field does narrow the Democrat's potential paths to the presidency. Now that a northern front - including Alaska, Montana and North Dakota - looks out of reach, Obama has four central ways...
...Britons harbor doubts about their politicians - and surveys suggest that they trust them only fractionally more than they trust tabloid reporters - then this week's annual conference of the governing Labour Party may have reinforced their skepticism. For the convocation of activists and career politicians in the northern English city of Manchester was choreographed to banish the one ingredient it purported to promote: public debate. On that measure, Labour scored a resounding success...