With the Russian population in steady decline, the region of Ulyanovsk has declared Sept. 12 "The Day Of Conception," and anyone in the region who has a child exactly nine months later will win money, cars and other prizes.
"If you delay getting any of these things for the next twelve months, together we will win this fight," he said.
While Mr. Romney may not know for weeks or even months whether he will win the nomination, his performance over the next seven days will most likely provide a telling signal about whether he can persuade the party at last to embrace his candidacy.
If the positive trends of the last two months continue, Obama will win, and especially against the backdrop of Tea Party advocacy and tactics, the Democrats may recapture the House and maintain a majority in the Senate.
A decision could come as early as this month over who will win the contract to provide a system for all 20 Premier League grounds and Wembley.
Whoever wins the war of words on the economy that takes place over the next 18 months will probably win the election (unless, of course, there's a different type of war that distracts us in the mean time).
Page B1 A HOLLYWOOD HOMECOMING After months of drama that nobody will win an Oscar for, DreamWorks ended up back in familiar territory: Universal Studios.
The winning entry in this competition will win six months of access to the wave-riding robots to complete the research.
If they can ride out the injury to Heurelho Gomes, the goalkeeper who is out for a month at least, then they will win over some of the numerous observers who wonder when the inevitable dip will come.
Election Forecast, a group of political scientists who have been crunching polls and historical data for months now, project that the Conservatives will win 281 seats, Labour 266, the centrist Liberal Democrats 26 and the separatist Scottish National Party 53 (some studies suggest the Tories will do slightly better, others that Labour will; Election Forecast sits roughly at the mid- point).
