McCormack says the United States is concerned about Russia's decision to keep thousands of soldiers in both breakaway regions.

麦科马克说，美国对俄罗斯决意让数千名军人留驻这些分离地区感到忧虑。

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Petrov also says Russia's decision to recognize the two breakaway Georgian republics as independent states could have a boomerang effect.

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Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the ticket of the States' Rights Democratic Party, or Dixiecrats, a breakaway faction of Southern Democrats who believed strongly in racial segregation and were opposed to their party's civil rights program.

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One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.

ECONOMIST: Unions