"I especially appreciated the chance to meet with Iraqis, including a group of Iraqi women, who were both war widows and helping widows and their children, and I also participated in a historic town meeting with Iraqi citizens representing a broad cross-section of Iraqi society.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Widows' politics is especially eye-catching in the Philippines because of the personalities involved: the redoubtable Mrs Aquino and the well-heeled, indeed well-shod, Imelda Marcos, whose husband was the dictator Mrs Aquino deposed.

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Hiking taxes on investment income and growth would thus hit a relatively small number, albeit a lot of widows and orphans are dependent on dividend income and especially from those faithful utilities.

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