Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...graduate students in the class have attempted runs at elective office, including Chet Edwards, a second-year student at the Business School. Edwards ran for Texas' Sixth District Congressional seat in 1978, and missed the runoff after the Democratic primary by 185 votes out of 85,000 cast. "From a 'yellow dog' Democratic district (where it's said that a yellow dog could win an election if he was listed on the Democratic ballot), Edwards says that his near-miss at age 26 shows that a young person can be elected to Congress-yet he still finds Untermeyer's viewpoint...
...style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality. As one politician noted, "Mondale simply has no negative constituency." And in an election where many of the ballots cast will be negative votes, this is seen as an important attribute...
...message comes across differently now--the pastor's eyes are compassionate; he tells you he loves you and he's trying to help you. So if you can't vote for Ben-jamin Bubar, the ultra-conservative candidate of the National Statesman Party [formerly the Prohibition Party], at least cast your ballot for Reagan. Use the Bible as your voter information guide...
Unlike his left-wing counterparts, this pastor won't be casting his minor-party vote alone. Millions of Americans have joined the fundamentalist Moral Majority crusade, which says its mandate is "to give a voice to millions of decent, law-abiding, Godfearing Americans who want to do something about the moral decline of our country." Most of them will cast their votes for Ronald Reagan; if the former California governor is elected tomorrow, they will have a claim on the spoils. The demands will be drastic: a Constitutional amendment against abortion, massive military spending, sending troops to countries like Afghanistan...
...found, Landless is released. Enter the ostentatiously mysterious Datchery, an old man with juvenile energy. Is he disguised? Is he a detective? Is he a woman? Is he Drood himself? Through the drama swirl the premonitory themes of drug addiction and Eastern religion, played out by a varied cast of supporting characters (and suspects): the cheerful clergyman Crisparkle; Mr. Grewgious, one of the very few likable lawyers in the Dickens canon; the admirable young naval officer, Lieutenant Tartar; the sulky clerk Bazzard; and the bullying philanthropist, Mr. Honeythunder. All are the products of a unique and fevered imagination; none...