And, of course, the leadership of the United States at the global level cannot be overlooked, not just in the political field but also in the economic field.
More recently and much more famously, Silver has put his algorithm-based models to use in the political field, launching the blog FiveThirtyEight.com and correctly predicting the winner in 99 out of 100 total states in the past two presidential elections.
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Like his intellectual heirs in the Tea Party, Thomas has a special hostility for government attempts to level the playing field in the political arena.
So the fact that new weapons programs may take 20 years to reach the field in a political system that operates on two- and four-year cycles is a real threat to keeping those programs on track.
And even with all Lord Neill's recommendations in place, the political playing field is never likely to be entirely level.
In the field of political ideas, unlike in the commercial and financial marketplace whose usefulness Friedman explained and extolled, there is no booking of gains.
As that medium loses its value, and as things like YouTube, Reddit and Facebook gain value, you get this wonderful leveling of the playing field in the political world as well.
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With three independent election monitors planned for each station in Moscow, relatively few will be left to patrol the immense space in the rest of Russia, leaving the field clear for Putin's political machine to tweak outcomes as it sees fit.
Another crucial question is whether any of the main Palestinian militant groups will enter the political process and field a presidential candidate in particular Hamas, whose popularity has risen as the PA's has slumped.
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Leadership is a singular quality, whether in the boardroom, the political arena or on the sports field.
Said believes that both Jerusalem and Washington are committed to their goal of removing Hamas from the political playing field, at least in the short term.
It is clear that the Islamist forces are fractured and the Brotherhood's base is shrinking, as the political playing field becomes increasingly level in a democratizing Egypt.
And progress has been glacial in this field, partly because of all the political controversy about embryonic stem cells and partly because the science is very very difficult and the Food and Drug Administration has been cautious about letting studies start.
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If, in the eighties, the media's political humor was honed in the wrinkled face of Ronald Reagan, and later the media had a field day with the physique of George W. Bush, for four years it has been cautious with the current resident of the White House.
Just as importantly, public funding of 74 political activists could tilt the political playing field to the advantage of the party in power.
President Ronald Reagan began saying "we'll listen to the military", and George W Bush made a political mantra of "we'll listen to the commanders in the field", he says.
Under the new law, only registered political parties would be allowed to field candidates in elections.
In a meeting with the heads of political parties early this week, the head of the SCAF, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, urged politicians to form a new constituent assembly for drafting a new constitution without the participation of members of Parliament.
For the past two weeks, the U.S. Army has been scrambling to find the money to support our troops in he field because of Democrats' decision to delay the emergency war supplemental-spending bill to score political points.
Yes, the country is looking forward to Euro 2012, but this political "football" without rules has been going on in Ukraine for two years already and during this time the two major political parties have simply trampled the "football field", which is Ukraine itself.
On both sides of the political spectrum, Americans are speaking out about what they see as an uneven playing field emerging in the U.S. economy.
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