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Tejeda's district is only 9 percent African-American, but the spot makes this politically correct nod to diversity and to the blacks enlisted at the Air Force bases that are the lifeblood of the area.
But tourism is the country’s modern lifeblood, and not just as a result of our insatiable thirst for history.
They remain some of the most evocative images of the 1970s, those film clips of sheiks clad in flowing robes and luxuriant headdresses, striding confidently from hotel lobbies into waiting limousines, secure in the knowledge that in controlling two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, they controlled the lifeblood of the industrialized world.
But Microsoft's lifeblood is its employee stock-option program, and so the stock price is, in a sense, one of the fundamentals.
But although the topic is important enough for a NYT editorial, don't look for any Times news stories to really dig into such leaks, as they are the lifeblood of the paper's scandal coverage.