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Also, although the WP and NYT list the states suing, there is no explanation anywhere about what point there is for the states to file their own suit, or why the other thirty states are staying on the sidelines.
Everyone agrees that George W. Bush is the front-runner, that Steve Forbes is in second place, and that Dan Quayle, who finished back in the pack with Lamar Alexander, will soon join Alexander on the sidelines.
Exhausted after the Civil War, Spain remained on the sidelines during World War II and began to recover economically under the oppressive, law-and-order regime of Franco.
"They can be found," a CNN correspondent informs us, "shuttling the kids to practice in minivans, nervously pacing the sidelines, juggling the demands of family and career."
Conservatives would jeer from the sidelines, demanding big tax cuts and no longer spelling out--as they admirably did last year--how such cuts would be paid for.