These two constituencies made it increasingly difficult for portfolio managers to strike the right balance between credit quality and yield.
Paradoxically, however, while support from constituencies makes it easier for you to reach an agreement, it also makes it easier for your counterpart to force you to accept less favorable terms.
If he acknowledges his errors, apologizes to the negatively impacted constituencies, makes it clear there will be no recurrence, he can start the healing process.
The deafening silence from the White House on issues essential to these three core Democratic constituencies made it clear that the White House was not investing political capital in passing those reforms.
Hezbollah's huge Lebanese-Shiite electoral constituency makes it hard to ignore.
But boundary changes have brought thousands of affluent Tory-leaning voters into the constituency, making it an equally tight race.
And now there's a third, in Bristol's Clifton area, a neighbourhood whose studenty/boho constituency makes it prime River Cottage territory.
Indeed, from 1990 through 1996, according to the New York City Department of Planning, 2,050 new housing units were completed in Queens Community District 12 -- a major portion of Mr. Spigner's constituency -- making it one of only 7 among the city's 59 Community Districts to pass the 2,000-unit 2,000-unite first seven years of the 90's.
Republican leaders have made repeal of what they call the "death tax" one of their priorities, particularly in this election year, although the bill that cleared the House today appears far more likely to score points with crucial constituencies than to make it into law.
