Tim Phillips, a former business partner to Jack Abramoff who now leads the Koch front group Americans for Prosperity, was with Nancy Pfotenhauer, a former corporate lobbyist for Koch Industries.

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EU's enlargement to include ten new member countries, which took place last May, was sold as a golden opportunity to expand a European zone of peace, prosperity and co-operation into the former Soviet block.

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These, says James Duderstadt, a former president of the University of Michigan, could provide the basis for a new prosperity, especially for his own car-crashed state.

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Though the Scarlet Knights had brief bouts with prosperity, including a dominating 62-39 win over Pitt and his former boss on Jan. 11, 2012, mediocrity ruled the day in Piscataway, N.

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Tuesday's ruling in Washington was also cheered by two of the biggest-spending outside groups in the 2012 presidential and congressional campaigns: Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, and Crossroads GPS, run by former President George W. Bush's aide Karl Rove.

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