Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...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 and discussion useful. "The speakers have shown that politics is not always the fund and games and glory everyone makes...
...Reagan is railing about it. But Reagan could never do anything about it either. They should burn the place down." Pidgeon has lived in Manchester for six years, and says he is one of the few people around town who has never met a presidential candidate in person...
...departments--indicates that the problem for minorities comes not at the end of the process, when departments make their choices, but at the beginning, when would-be minority applicants make theirs. "The results for minorities were patently clear," the report concludes. "It was rare, very rare, for a minority person to be found even on the long list of junior faculty search committees." In fact, in the 84 searches conducted by the seven departments under study, only 39 out of more than 10,000 applicants on the long lists were minorities, the report states. Two of those minority applicants made...
Richard B. Wirthlin, Reagan's chief pollster, said his candidate looked both "at ease and strong" simultaneously. "We thought the person on the defensive would lose," Wirthlin said, "but that wasn't the case...
...REAL STAR of the show is the set, created by Derek McLane, Mammoth flowers open with a resounding pop, like umbrellas--not flowers so much as an urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful...