Word: straws
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...carried out without an independent judiciary back in place - and all of them ended in chaos. "We will see bloodshed and bombs," he concluded. Musharraf is promising Europe's leaders that February 18 will be a turning point for Pakistan. But others fear it could be the last straw...
...Lamontal Breakdown 2 oz. vodka 1 can sugar-free Red Bull Serve in another empty Red Bull can and nobody will know the difference. Cabot Explosion 1 oz. rum 1 oz. coconut rum 5 oz. pineapple juice Serve in a Greenhouse Café smoothie cup and sip from a straw. Hella Hilles 2. oz vodka 6 oz. dining hall lemonade Pour into that Nalgene bottle you got for free your freshman fall and shake...
...however, British Lord Chancellor Jack Straw sent a letter to Sark demanding it move to full democracy, calling the proposed compromise inconsistent with "modern democratic principles." Sark is a dependent of the English monarchy, and its laws require approval by the British government...
...then Huckabee won in Iowa, not barely, but by 9 points. He crushed Mitt Romney, despite the Mitt machine, a massive campaign organization that ruled the August straw poll and dropped nasty mailers like confetti. Now he is polling third behind Romney and McCain in New Hampshire, the two home-state favorites, at about 11%, a Southern Baptist minister who has pulled ahead of a former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in New England. Huckabee has skillfully set expectations low enough that a third-place finish in New Hampshire will be viewed as a success, and he is also leading...
...more than a year, the people of the Hawkeye State attended a graduate seminar in presidential politics while the rest of us got to sleep in and borrow their notes. They took their responsibility seriously, braving suffocating heat at the Ames straw poll in August and near zero temperatures during caucus week to meet the candidates and study their records. They attended town meetings, rallies, coffee klatches and house parties, and they interrupted their family festivities over the holidays to hear two or three more political speeches in large auditoriums and crowded diners across the state...