Word: vies
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...then there is Iraq, still looming large in the President's cross hairs even as other targets vie for first position. In signing the congressional resolution allowing him to go to war, Bush attacked Saddam because he "promotes international terror" and "seeks nuclear weapons." But Iran, the prime sponsor of Hizballah and Islamic Jihad, is among the world's main exporters of terrorism. And now North Korea has confessed to breaking every pledge it made on the way to amassing its own weapons of mass destruction...
...chance. A rising star as mayor of Bettendorf, a suburban town on the Mississippi, she was courted by both parties. The Republicans wanted her to run for lieutenant governor four years ago; she didn't like the head of the ticket. The Dems, in 1996, asked her to vie for Congress against Jim Leach; she figured he couldn't lose. But with redistricting last year, Leach moved west, leaving Nussle the man to beat in the First District. "He lost much of his rural base; 42% of the district's population is new for him," says Hutchinson...
...comfy and really French, yet not enough of a caricature to be funky. One feels as though they’ve just stepped into the France portion of the Epcot Center, with cute French food vocabulary that anyone, not just French speakers, might understand (bierre en boutailles, eau de vie and les vins) printed on bright plastic panels behind the bar. Everything is too neatly arranged to be real, the white bistro-style dishes and dishcloths for napkins too self-consciously chosen. They amount to a bistro-style restaurant rather than a bistro. Probably somebody’s bistro-themed...
Even the hundreds of organizations that receive funds from the College’s Undergraduate Council and are subject to the College’s oversight have few formal restrictions upon who may vie for leadership posts...
...struggle, in each race, has been to prove liberal stripes while appealing to a broad swath of people. The senate seat for which Galluccio and Barrios vie, along with relative unknown Carlos DeMaria, contains Cambridge’s wealthier neighborhoods as well as several nearby blue-collar towns...