Word: primes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Houston hears a consistent stream of voices--in the New York dailies and on its talk radio programs--which call for him to become the superstar his multimillion-dollar contract demands. Patrick Ewing is past his prime, they whisper. Houston is the Knick of the future...
Today, Israelis will go to the ballot box to elect a new prime minister. There are now only two contenders for the premiership: Likud leader and incumbent Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and Labor Party Chief Ehud Barak. Three other candidates, Centrist Yitzchak Mordechai, Israeli-Arab leader Azmi Bishara and hawk Zeev "Benny" Begin bowed out of the race in the 11th hour...
...funded Hizbullah has reached a pitched crescendo. Internally, the economy is in the midst of a slippery slide, while fault-lines between religious and secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi (Jews of European origin vs. Jews of mid-Eastern origin), political left and political right, are tremoring towards earthquake. The new prime minister will be charged with arbitrating these complex, seemingly intractable problems...
...campaign blunders. Rather, the polls more likely reflect the fact that the electoral landscape has tipped in Barak's favor over the last few days. Thus far, the race between Netanyahu and Barak has been neck and neck. Therefore, every percentage point counts. Very recently, the Israeli-Arab prime ministerial candidate, Azmi Bishara, dropped out of the race in order to give Barak his 2 percent Arab vote. Similarly, Barak received another shot in the arm when Center Party leader Yitzchak Mordechai withdrew and urged his supporters to vote for Barak. In an election which will be determined...
...ultra-religious. Although Barak may enjoy the applause of Israel's socioeconomic elite, they constitute only a demographic plurality and not a majority. On the other hand, Netanyahu's collective, multi-ethnic support may just be that majority. If they are mobilized successfully, Netanyahu may well be prime minister once again...