Riyadh's military intervention is the latest front in a growing regional contest for power with Iran that is also playing out in Syria, where Tehran backs Assad's government against mainly Sunni rebels, and Iraq, where Iranian-backed Shia militias are playing a major role in fighting.
Thirty-seven years later, on the Sunday before Labor Day, the ex-President and First Lady stood in a barn at the Hopkinton State Fair, in New Hampshire, and inspected the finalists in an annual pumpkin-growing contest — which inevitably led to talk about watermelons.
"Jefferson would kill the thing at Monticello and go back to George Divers and say, 'What happened to those black-eyed peas I brought back from France in 1789?' " Mr. Hatch said, referring to Jefferson's neighbor, a much better gardener who usually won their pea-growing contest.
Which brings us to a windblown stretch of Williamsburg the other night, where the Pirate, an earnest young man with an earnest young mustache, was standing in front of a shuttered bar — the official site of the finals of the Mustaches for Kids mustache-growing contest.
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ADVERTISERS and agencies are trying to determine how the disclosure that promotional games at McDonald's restaurants were rigged during the last six years -- costing customers the chance to win more than $13 million in cash and prizes -- will affect the growing use of contests and sweepstakes to woo consumers.
His father, Ross, entered crop-growing contests, and Francis followed suit when he took over the family farm in 1966.
From the outset, high profile public companies instinctively knew that there would be a growing sustainability beauty contest.
The more crowded Republican field was becoming more raucous, the more intimate Democratic contest growing a bit testier.
To date, all the evidence suggests that Democratic enthusiasm and participation are growing as the contest progresses — voter turnout is rising, both candidates are breaking fundraising records — with little evidence of voter fatigue or bitterness.
But the party's effort to defeat Bob Kerrey, the native son and former senator who returned here from New York to bolster Democrats' hopes, is taking a back seat to a fiercely competitive Republican primary fight that features a familiar tug-of-war between establishment and insurgent candidates that has become a growing theme in Republican contests across the country.
