Sentences with phrase «lot of these national campaigns»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

It's obviously a big risk to go into the U.S. market, and Target was a national launch, which meant a national marketing campaign, which meant a big spend and a lot of risk.

«I just suspected that there were higher barriers for something to treat women, a lot higher than were set up for the male drugs,» said Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League, which campaigned for the drug.

The campaign in Oregon drew a lot of national attention over accusations that federal taxpayer money was being used to fund anti-legalization events.

«The national government and presidential campaigns, they generally attract a lot of heady people who haven't really done stuff on the ground.

«The national Democratic Party, from Obama on down, [are pro-hydrofracking] and [Cuomo's] brand is not being a big environmentalist... he's a fiscal conservative and a social liberal... plus there's a lot of money coming from the oil and gas industry to his campaign,» said Hawkins, suggesting that this money will fund his presidential bid.

At first, we didn't have a lot of money, and we certainly did not have anything close to the kind of staffing needed to run a national presidential campaign.

For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education.

Big Hollywood Donors Enter School Board Race for First Time Hollywood donates a lot of money to national political campaigns.

This notion underlies a lot of campaigns, ranging from Ecuador's effort to raise enough money from international contributors to «leave the oil in the soil» under its splendid Yasuní National Park to Bill McKibben's «Do the Math» campaign to rid university and college endowments of fossil fuel investments.

I remember when we went to the election's one major debate, and as we entered the parking lot one of Arianna's advisors, who had worked on a number of national campaigns, looked at the scene and said, «There's more media here than at a presidential debate.»

On Friday, the Department of Justice indicted 13 Russian nationals on a number of charges for alleged involvement with an 80 - person - plus troll farm called the Internet Research Agency, which tried to flood US social media with disinformation and propaganda in what intelligence officials said looked a lot like an effort to help Trump's campaign.