Posts Tagged ‘majority’
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States, a tipping point that has implications for politics, the economy and a nation’s identity.
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Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Craig Whyte agrees to transfer his Rangers majority shareholding to two parties planning a takeover, say administrators.

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Whyte to part with Rangers shares
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Creating massive legislative majority.
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Bibi Strikes Unity Deal
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
First Minister Carwyn Jones says Labour can build on big gains at the council elections and win an outright majority in the Welsh assembly.

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Jones targets more Labour success
Tags: big-gains, build-on-big, carwyn-jones, council, elections, irs, jones, labour, majority, minister, the-council, welsh
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Majority of ads so far attack an opponent.
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2012: The Year of the Negative Ad
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
Time and again last year, House Republican leaders faced a nearly intractable opponent: the very freshman class that propelled them into the majority with the historic 2010 midterm elections. Rebelling from the outset of the 112th Congress and later wreaking internal havoc during talks to increase the Treasury Department’s ability to borrow funds , the freshman class repeatedly created problems for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), according to a new book. Read full article > >

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Book: GOP freshman class turned into ‘a monster’ for Boehner, other House leaders
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
A large majority of Americans believe that this year’s unusually warm winter and last year’s blistering summer were likely made worse by global warming, according to a survey.
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Americans Link Global Warming to Extreme Weather, Poll Says
Tags: george mason university, global-warming, greenhouse gas emissions, large-majority, made-worse, majority, polls and public opinion, war, weather
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Bob Brown, the leader of Australia’s Greens on whom PM Julia Gillard depends for her wafer-thin majority, resigns.

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Australia’s Greens leader resigns
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday said he was considering bringing forward by a year the presidential election set for 2014 to reduce the pressure on the conflict-plagued country during the period when majority of NATO coalition troops are scheduled to withdraw. Read full article > >

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Karzai considers holding Afghan election earlier than 2014
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
SEOUL — President Lee Myung-bak’s ruling party emerged Thursday from a tight electoral race with a tenuous majority in parliament, avoiding a political setback just eight months before a presidential vote. Read full article > >

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After tight race in South Korea, ruling party hangs on to majority
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
When Egypt’s autocratic regime collapsed early last year amid an unstoppable wave of protest, Sherif Mansour leaped at the chance to help promote and shape a nascent democracy in his Muslim-majority homeland. Mansour, who works at the District-based human rights group Freedom House, traveled to Cairo, applied for a government permit, opened an office and hired local staff. Read full article > >

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Area Egyptian Americans view Islamic party’s rise, U.S. visit with hope, suspicion
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Academies, soon to be a majority of secondary schools in England, are showing more signs of continuity than radical upheaval, suggests a survey.

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Academies ‘reluctant to change’
Tags: majority, more-signs, radical, radical-upheaval, school, schools, sec, secondary-schools
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
This much is clear after two hours of Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of the individual mandate , which I was in the room to hear: The president’s health-care bill won’t rise or fall on a question of law, but on how the majority of justices define the health-care market. Read full article > >

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Eva Rodriguez: Why the health-care law might stand at the Supreme Court
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
The vast majority of tax breaks in the U.S. tax code would be hard to cut because they promote important social goals or are “hugely popular” with voters, according to a new congressional analysis that casts doubt on Republican promises to substantially lower tax rates without adding to budget deficits. Read full article > >

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Tax breaks would be tough to cut, congressional research says
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Anne Lamott was not ready to be a grandmother. “I was a young fifty-five,” she writes at the beginning of “ Some Assembly Required ,” the follow-up to her best-selling memoir “ Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year ” (1993). “Maybe a medium fifty-five. Let’s say a ripe fifty-five, with a child just one year past his majority.” Read full article > >

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Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott’s ‘Some Assembly Required’: Grandma’s first year
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