Word: stumps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...backing ballot measures in six states to boost the minimum wage. They hope voters will go to the polls for this cause, then support Democrats in races that could help the party take back Congress. Clinton and ex-Senator John Edwards will head to Ohio this week to stump for that state's measure. Edwards then plans to go to Arizona to rally for an initiative there...
...Iraq War was declining, one of the President's mantras in his reelection campaign was, "You may not always agree with me, but you always know where I stand," and he repeatedly referred to his experience in being President after 9/11. Lieberman, in the debate and on the stump, has adopted a similar line: "I vote with my Senate Democratic colleagues 90% of the time," he said. "When I vote against them, I've had the courage of my convictions." And he used the debate to repeatedly remind voters of his 18 years of Senate experience. The question is whether...
...starting to pass out, but he still displayed the smooth forehead and expressionless eyes of the silent treatment that apprehended perpetrators can give. His right foot was mangled-bits of sneaker mixed in with clotted blood, bone, cartilage and tendon. His left leg was hanging by skin. The jagged stump of his tibia stuck out just below the knee-pretty much what you would expect from the wheel of a subway train. Even in Harlem, this was pretty...
...those same supporters can also thank L?pez Obrador's own authoritarian bent for helping to whittle away the lead he enjoyed during the campaign. Though he is hardly as radical as Chavez - as even Wall Street bigshots concede - he often sounded sufficiently messianic and self-righteous on the stump to alienate swing voters located somewhere between the poor he champions and the middle-class. Calder?n took his own big hit with voters last month when it was revealed that while he was Energy Secretary, his brother-in-law received a pi?ata of lucrative, energy-related federal contracts...
...debate over homeopathy has always been emotional," she says. At the moment, the skeptics are in the ascendant in France. Two years ago, the state-run health insurer, Assurance Maladie, reduced the rate at which it reimburses homeopathy from 65% to 35%. By contrast, health insurers in Germany stump up for a broad range of therapies. "Unconventional" means what it says; treatments include acupuncture and cupping, in which heated cups are placed on the skin to stimulate blood flow. One state-mandated insurer, Securvita, even won a court fight last year allowing it to cover music and painting therapy...