Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running considerably behind Reagan and neck and neck with John Connally in the polls, Baker hopes to break away from his rivals in the primaries in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Since surveys indicate that he arouses less hostility than either Reagan or Connally, he thinks he can emerge as a compromise candidate. But he is not as well organized as fellow moderate George Bush, and his staff, led primarily by Tennesseans, is inexperienced in national politics...
Only outspoken Dissident Kim Dae Jung, 53, dared to break the silence maintained by other politicians. Still under house arrest for his long opposition to the Park regime, Kim urged that the existing 2,583-member electoral college should be scrapped in favor of a direct, popular election for a new President...
...they were perpetuating it. Mahler once burst out to his recalcitrant colleagues: "What you theater people call your tradition is nothing but your comfort and your laziness." Maazel seems prepared to line up with Mahler when he says: "Opera has to be renewed constantly. I shall not hesitate to break with tradition to maintain the excellence of this company...
...says he witnessed the crime testified this week he saw an individual break into a white Vega, removing a tool box, 60 feet of white nylon sailing rope, a small packet resembling a wallet, and several other small objects, sources said yesterday...
...House teams meet the best that Yale has to offer next Friday. Floyd Wilson, director of intramurals, said he has not decided how to break the sixth place tie between Winthrop and Leverett...