Word: uppers
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...result of simply being able to survive the fierce Israeli onslaught. As a result, Hamas says, Israel lost the political battle - its pummeling of Gaza and the heavy Palestinian death toll has offended many former supporters, leaving Hamas' political position strengthened. But in battle, Israel clearly held the upper hand. During the conflict, very few of Hamas' 15,000 fighters appeared, and neither did its feared arsenal of Iranian-supplied weapons. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...government health policy - including giants like UnitedHealth, GE Healthcare and the Health Industry Distributors Association - paid Daschle five-figure sums for speeches. UnitedHealth was also a "client" of Daschle's at Alston, as was the Great Plains Indian Gaming Association, a trade group representing tribes with casinos in the upper Midwest. And then there is Leo Hindery Jr., the former chairman of the cable-television industry's lobbying group, who hired Daschle as an adviser on a new investment firm and gifted him more than $100,000 in car services from Hindery's limousine driver, which the former South Dakota...
...ever brought but the episode adds to sensitivities about the House of Lords. In 1997, Labour came to power promising to abolish hereditary peers. In 1999, it expelled most of the hereditary peers, but attempts to complete the reforms by replacing the Lords with a partially or wholly elected Upper Chamber have run into the sand. In May 2008, Gordon Brown announced that the government would issue a report updating its position on Lords reform, but it has not yet materialized...
Britain may have lost some of its olde-worlde charms to the dual forces of modernizing government and globalization, but there's one corner of the nation left largely untouched by progress. Parliament's Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon...
...upper hand, going 5-of-10 from the field to post 13 points to go along with his six assists, but the junior standout failed to convert on multiple attempts at the line, going 2-of-5 from the stripe when it counted most...