No commercial operator can rival the reach and distribution of the incumbent post offices, which is therefore just as likely to be a marketing strength to incumbents as an expensive handicap.From pillar to postThe USO is by far the most politically sensitive issue raised by liberalisation, but it is not the only one.
From 2003 the European Union plans to limit national post offices' monopoly to items weighing less than 50 grams, and to open direct mail and outbound international mail up to full competition.Some incumbent post offices, especially those in Britain and France, are resisting fiercely.
Their bitterness is deepened by the conviction that Bush won the 2004 election in spite of his domestic policies, including his likely judicial choices; he won it because he was the post-9/11 incumbent, and he was the post-9/11 incumbent because, in 2000, the Court whose members he now appoints appointed him.
Waddy was an early incumbent of this post and is credited with doing much to develop new roles for the SAS in the post colonial war period.
What they said — and didn't say — from the CPAC podium not only shows a political opposition running on empty but also dramatizes the remarkable leadership opportunity their fecklessness has handed to the incumbent president in post-shellacking Washington.
In December, Manuela Carmena, the new mayor of Madrid and the first leftwing incumbent of that post for 24 years, announced that 30 street names in the capital with a connection to Franco were to be changed.
During her 2012 Presidential campaign, the National Intelligence Service and the Ministry of Defense, supportive of the incumbent Saenuri Party, covertly posted some twenty-two million tweets and thousands of online messages accusing Park's opponents of, among other things, being North Korean sympathizers.
The sometime Fifa deputy general secretary tried to run against Sepp Blatter when the now suspended incumbent retained his post, at the last election in May, but he was not nominated.
A3 Incumbent Wins Algerian Post The president of Algeria won a second term as head of state in a landslide vote as voters rewarded him for bringing relative peace to a country weary from more than a decade of civil war.
He was an early incumbent in the post of Director SAS and did much to expand the Special Air Service's role.
On election day, Nov. 4, voters will choose between two starkly different candidates for the powerful post: incumbent Democrat Dave Jones, elected in 2010, and a Republican challenger, state Sen. Ted Gaines.
