The Year in Words

I was thinking for words or phrases that seemed to define the year we are ending. I thought I'd compile a list of say 25 with the idea in mind of say in a week or two coming back to the list and using it as the basis of creating a poem to represent the positive and negative energies that made up 2006. However, I thought that I truly want the selections to represent universality So I though for the next week, in addition to my own list, I wold tally up those anyone else cared to suggest and then settle on the 25 most mentioned. So, this is audience participation time. Between now and the 7th of January, give me your list in the comments. Please, no proper names. Just words and short two or three word phrases. Here is mine for starters:

1. global economy
2. global warming
3. emigrant
4. illegal alien
5. withdrawal
6. stem cell research
7. stay-the-course
8. body count
9. health care costs
10. stock market
11. bilateral talks
12. nuclear tests
13. nuclear proliferation
14. liquid on the moon
15. red states / blue states
16. jihad
17. religious extremists
18. neocon
19. spreading democracy
20. truthiness
21. need a plan
22. terrorists
23. crude oil
24. redeploy
25. civil union