And we're still picking up pieces of the Challenger.

But look, it can't AIDS, Iran Contra, the Challenger disaster, Chernobyl.

Similarly, it obtained from the United States a Thermadyne Challenger cutting bench.

The Solar Challenger was made to serve as a symbol that photovoltaic cells can produce real power and will be part of the world's energy future.

Then monarchy had seen off its big challenger, mass democracy, which was seen as a well intentioned but doomed experiment, just as capitalism has seen off socialism.

We are told that the debates this month between President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, might decide the election. It is, according to the pundits, Romney s last chance.

In the current presidential election campaign, the Democratic Party is attacking Obama s Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on the same specious grounds, with a complacent media acquiescing in the Democrats de facto India baiting.

While the market today has no serious challenger, it is morally vulnerable. It has become dangerously dependent on economic success, so that any large scale economic failure will expose the shallowness of its moral claims.

Then NASA had two large and image damaging space shuttle accidents the Challenger disaster of 1986, followed by the disintegration of the Columbia over Texas in 2003. These catastrophes stripped NASA of its appetite for risk.

Events in the days leading up to America s presidential election provided a stark illustration of the struggle. Among senior aides to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a belief developed that he was on the cusp of victory.

Another development is the US presidential election. Republican challenger Mitt Romney s success in the first debate improves his chances and the prospect of a new administration settling in before any major decisions are made on the Iranian nuclear issue.

India is unlikely to develop the power to become a global challenger to the US in the first half of this century. Indeed, even in terms of soft power, a recent study by the Portland Consultancy in London placed India outside the top 30 countries.

Enough is enough, President Barack Obama replied, when queried on the renminbi in the aftermath of his last meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Obama s presumptive Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, has promised to declare China guilty of currency manipulation the day he takes office.

A victory by Obama would reinforce America s unwillingness to attack Iran and renewed efforts to rein in Israel. And, if Republican challenger Mitt Romney is elected, he will need months to form his national security team and assemble his cabinet, leaving him unable to attack Iran immediately.

At the 2nd meeting, the Chair invited Mr. Brian Challenger (Antigua and Barbuda), Chair of the Consultative Group of Experts on National Communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (CGE), to report on progress of the implementation of the CGE work programme.

NEW YORK After the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, Obama s supporters chorused in near unison, He s back! The languid, disengaged, and lackluster performer of the first debate had disappeared, and the impressive, beloved figure of the victorious 2008 campaign had reappeared.

NEW YORK Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the United States s upcoming presidential election, even though they have a great deal at stake in the result. Overwhelmingly, non US citizens favor Barack Obama s re election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney.

Thus, the current conflict is essentially a pre emptive war by Hamas aggravated by lawlessness and banditry, clashing free lance militias, tribes, and families, and a spiral of senseless massacres to prevent Fatah from being turned by the international community into a formidable challenger to its democratic right to govern.

NEW HAVEN During the United States recent presidential election campaign, public opinion polls consistently showed that the economy and especially unemployment was voters number one concern. The Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, sought to capitalize on the issue, asserting The president s plans haven t worked he doesn t have a plan to get the economy going.

While President Barack Obama outpolls the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on foreign policy, slow economic growth and high unemployment issues that are far more salient in US elections favor Romney. And, even on foreign policy, Obama s critics complain that he has failed to implement the transformational initiatives that he promised four years ago.

NEW HAVEN As America s election season nears its finish, the debate seems to have come unhinged. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fixation on China singled out by both President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, as a major source of pressure bearing down on American workers and their families.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger. While few obstacles remain in Gamal s path to power in Egypt, in Algeria, meanwhile, a bid to install Said would likely collapse against resistance from powerful regime interests.

When former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faced his Socialist challenger, François Hollande, that was a debate addressing substantive issues and lasting more than two hours. By contrast, presidential debates in the United States are more like staged performances, where the answers to every possible question have been rehearsed endlessly with teams of coaches and advisers.

In this sense, Hurricane Sandy was like gun violence. Throughout the campaign season and despite several highly publicized mass shootings in this period neither President Barack Obama nor his challenger, Mitt Romney, wished to discuss the problem of laws in many states that allow almost anyone to carry lethal weapons and spray death around at random.

In the US, the Republican Party s leading presidential candidate in this year s election, Mitt Romney, declared at a recent debate, If you elect me as President, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. His principal challenger, Rick Santorum, told NBC News that he would order air strikes if it became clear that Iran was going to get nuclear weapons.

In this sense, last week brought two victories not just Barack Obama s over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the presidential election, but also the victory of America s democratic system over China s one party authoritarianism. In a few sentences of his victory speech the space of a magic moment Obama celebrated the mystery of democracy in a very concrete, but also nearly religious manner.

These policies are popular with voters, and they are protected by powerful actors (for example, the strong export oriented business sector) and by trade agreements with almost all the world s major economies and regional blocs. Unlike many Latin American countries, in which populist backlashes have followed the liberalizing reforms of the 1990 s, the main challenger in Chile is an even more pro market coalition.

BERLIN Germany s current parliamentary election campaign looks like a front running contender for the title of the most boring in the history of the Federal Republic. The predominant response among commentators to the sole television debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger, Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, held two weeks before the election, was a collective yawn all the more remarkable considering the historical events that overshadow this election.