Word: regardless
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...Despite difficulties, he would never complain,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton says. “Dan just always kept his nose to the grind. He wasn’t the most emotional of guys, but he was definitely steady in his dedication to the team regardless of whatever was going on [or] off the court...
...result is that farm payments that used to cost a few billion dollars a year have averaged $17 billion. They'll be lower this year because commodity prices are so high. But owners of eligible farmland will still get direct payments regardless of how much their farms earn or whether their farms are still farmed. And even though crop-insurance subsidies have increased nearly tenfold, farmers will still receive disaster aid if things go badly, no matter how often that happens. More than 21,000 farmers have cashed at least 11 disaster checks each in the past 21 years...
...said Sheila Krumholz, of the Center For Responsive Politics. But given the implausibility of $1,000 contributions by dishwashers and cooks - at least to people outside Chinatown - she suggested that "ideally they would go beyond the letter of the law and not accept something so willingly that is dubious regardless of what these folks say." She added: "When you're delivering the fund raising job to a bevy of bundlers, you need to make sure the procedures are tight. It really is incumbent on the candidates, campaigns and political parties to bring out the magnifying glass. If they...
...Independents are a vital demographic for Obama, who needs to draw in new voters in order to compete with Clinton and Edwards in Iowa, the all-important first test of presidential politics. The three are essentially tied in polls in Iowa, where anyone, regardless of party identification, can show up and caucus provided they sign a (non-binding) letter saying they intend to change their registration. And while 76% of Edwards supporters caucused in 2004, only 55% of Obama's supporters took the time four years ago, according to another University of Iowa poll...
...objected to a French-led deployment of European Union peacekeeping forces in eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees, and could be exploiting the Zoe's Ark case to whip up anti-foreigner sentiment. Chadian leaders deny those accusations, and say the E.U. troop deployment will proceed as planned. Regardless, other humanitarian aid groups attending to the Darfur crisis says the atmosphere in the region has turned suspicious and hostile since the Zoe's Ark affair exploded...