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  • The month before, the GOP had held a black-tie event that shattered previous single-event fund-raising records, bringing in over $21 million.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • The month before, the GOP had held a black-tie event that shattered previous single-event fund-raising records, bringing in over $21 million.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • The month before, the GOP had held a black-tie event that shattered previous single-event fund-raising records, bringing in over $21 million.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • The month before, the GOP had held a black-tie event that shattered previous single-event fund-raising records, bringing in over $21 million.

    Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010

  • Not only did the community reach it's target of 10,000 motorcycles, they blasted towards a single-event world record of over 12,000 tagged motorcycles.

    This week brought to you by the letter "F" 2008

  • Homeland security, post-9/11, has been highly militarized and focused primarily on single-event disasters like attacks or accidents, not on, say, the infection of critical grain crops by some newly evolved disease or, as is actually happening, the serial collapse of ocean fisheries.

    Chip Ward: After the Green Economy, Green Security 2009

  • But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single-event act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

    Irwin Redlener on surviving a nuclear attack Irwin Redlener 2008

  • But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single-event act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

    Irwin Redlener on surviving a nuclear attack Irwin Redlener 2008

  • But from 1991 through the present time, emphasized by the attacks of 2001, the idea of an all-out nuclear war has diminished and the idea of a single-event act of nuclear terrorism is what we have instead.

    Irwin Redlener on surviving a nuclear attack Irwin Redlener 2008

  • The poster child for the single-event transaction would be former ImClone Systemschief Samuel Waksal, who pleaded guilty in 2003 and was sentenced to seven years and three months for insider trading and fraud the same scandal that ensnared MarthaStewartMartha Stewart.

    A Glimmer Of Hope 2006

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