Word: stripe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they can somehow conjure a solid turnout of evangelical voters, the white suburbanites who fill the megachurches and can usually be counted on even in light-turnout elections like midterms. Party operatives plan to devote the election's closing weeks to courting Christians more intensely than any other single stripe of the electorate, all but begging the parishioners to give them one more chance even after the Foley scandal...
...argue till we pass out over Adnan Hajj's motives - politics? drama? careerism? - and those of the bloggers who pounced on the photos. In the end, they don't matter. What does matter is that every time something like this happens, the winners are the people of every political stripe who believe it's their calling to, to paraphrase another war, destroy the truth in order to save...
...Bahraini group consisted of five men: two gunrunners of a traditional criminal stripe, and three men with strong jihadist credentials. All were put through the basics of law enforcement procedure that are not necessarily common in their part of the world. Their belongings - cars, cell phones, wallets - were held in a secure place, used to glean further leads, and their apartments were searched...
...screen a film on the islands. White House Council on Environmental Quality chairman James Connaughton says the President and Cousteau then talked ocean policy over supper (no fish) and into the night. Two months later--it usually takes two years--Bush made his proclamation, adding a surprising green stripe to his legacy...
...money taken by smugglers. Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that the Guatemalan government cares more about my safety and well-being as a U.S. citizen than as a Guatemalan citizen. These inequalities are not only accepted, they are actively encouraged by people of almost every political stripe in the U.S.If two citizens, one from the U.S. and one from any other country, were suffering from the same affliction, most people in the U.S. would see no problem with helping the U.S. citizen first. This reaction comes from the stereotypical “American” practicing...