Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...vertical Mason-Dixon line puts 38 teams in the East, and 23 in the West, reflecting the balance of power that usually reigns in the sport. The championship bid is not contingent upon winning one's division. The Crimson can lose the ECAC to a Cinderella team, but still be Eastern Champions based on its superior record throughout the year...
...Politically, though, the cease-fire doesn't make Barak's life more difficult than it already is, since he's already out on a limb. Edging out further is unlikely to make him any more vulnerable. Right now he's safe in power because he's bought off [the ultra-Orthdox] Shas party for a month, and after that he faces the choice of either buying them off again, or else reviving negotiations with Likud to form a unity government. They agreement they're offering is not that hard for Barak to swallow, but of course once they...
...wave of returning gang members hit Central America in the mid-'90s, when the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was given more power to hunt down and prosecute illegal aliens. According to the INS, the number of criminal deportations to Mexico and Central America has doubled since 1995 to 62,359 last year. INS officials concede that many of these "removals" belonged to gangs, either in prisons or in Hispanic neighborhoods back in the U.S. In Florida and New York, aliens in jail for criminal acts are given a choice halfway through their term to either be deported immediately...
...course, every presidential election season has its new tactics and campaign strategies - the Rapid Response teams run by James Carville that helped bring President Clinton to power is the most recent example - but the latest ways in which the electorate has been persuaded don't usually become apparent until magazines do election retrospectives or books are published...
...certainly an awareness that Texas isn't quite the Garden of Eden that Bush has been portraying. But at the same time they were also trying to convey the belief that Bush, as a one-and-half-term governor of a state where the chief executive has very little power, would therefore lack the hands-on experience necessary to run a nation. Highlighting the fact that the Texas legislature meets for only four months every two years makes the case well. But the corollary is that it has weakened the overall argument against Bush. It is difficult to make...