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The science case that probably played the most significant role in the campaign was a suit filed by the British Chiropractic Association against science writer Simon Singh for an article he published in The Guardian in 2008, in which he discussed “bogus treatments.”
The scientists, writers, and anti-censorship activists who led the campaign were assisted in Parliament by Lord Lester, a well-known British civil liberties lawyer, who introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2010, and eventually by endorsement of reform by all three major political parties.
Indeed, no sooner did our meeting finish, and with the world commemorating International Human Rights Day, the Syrian regime launched a massive campaign of arrests and intimidation directed against some of the country’s most prominent dissidents.
Trump’s Fiscal FolliesCAMBRIDGE – This year’s presidential election campaign in the United States is certainly unique.
Donald Trump has shaken up the way a campaign is run, how a nominee communicates with voters, and the Republican Party’s platform, with many of his positions deviating from GOP tradition.
Even for a more typical candidate, promises made during a campaign rarely match actions taken once in office.
During his presidential campaign in 2000, George W. Bush promised to renounce nation-building adventures abroad, to maintain fiscal discipline, and to treat greenhouses gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
One of the three economists who have signed on as advisers to the Trump campaign has suggested that, with Trump in the White House, the rate of GDP growth will somehow double.
As his campaign, once regarded with derision, continues to rack up successes – most recently, in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries and the Hawaii caucus – pundits are scrambling for some historical or foreign analogue that can shed light on the phenomenon.
Of course, it’s not hard to imagine that Russian hackers did find a way into the Democratic National Committee’s servers, or those used by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as part of espionage efforts that target government, corporate, and political organizations of all kinds.
Trump harped on this issue often during his presidential campaign.
As young Kenyans repeated during the recent election campaign, “If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”
In Nigeria, young people spearheaded the Not Too Young to Run campaign, which led to a constitutional amendment lowering the minimum age for candidates.
Their success inspired a global campaign to support young people’s right to run for office.
Corporate campaign contributions increasingly undermine the democratic process, with the blessing of the US Supreme Court.
With the campaign dragging on for months, the referendum has thoroughly polarized Turkish politics.
The Trouble with HopePARIS – America’s presidential election campaign is being followed in Europe with passionate interest.
In the US, alligator-filled moats and electrified border fences have featured in the current presidential campaign.
Both political parties serve their rich campaign contributors, while proclaiming that they defend the middle class.
The Republican Party recently issued a “Pledge to America” to explain its beliefs and campaign promises.
The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.
The third option to consider is a public information campaign about diseases, symptoms, and risk factors.
But, while an expensive campaign to combat a particularly dangerous, communicable disease like HIV/AIDS makes sense, it is less clear that this approach works well when aimed at providing the public with general, health-related information.
Even so, providing universal health care access would almost certainly lead more people to consult doctors about their symptoms, and therefore would reinforce any education campaign.
Last spring’s campaign against anyone who dared to worry about the long-run effects of high debt largely ignored the substantial academic literature, just as a remarkably similar recent challenge to Thomas Piketty’s research on inequality took no account of a larger body of evidence.
This may seem strange, given the antagonism between Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi during the electoral campaign.
In a noisy and rough campaign – one that has already divided the Conservatives and contributed to the unease within Labour over the party’s leadership – the appeal of such simplistic arguments is obvious.
The UK’s “Leave” campaign channeled a widely felt desire to restore past certainties, not to establish new rights.
But Johnson is culturally at ease with Europe and at times seemed ambivalent about the Leave campaign that he led.
The aims of the campaign were laudable, but it generated hostility and ill will, undermining its effectiveness.
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