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...displays greater vitality than most of his Kremlin colleagues. His hair is slate gray but abundant. His shoulders are only slightly stooped, and he walks without a shuffle. His dour, dark-eyed face has been etched over the decades with downturning lines, but it is still capable of all the familiar flashes of emotion: the rare, stray wisp of a smile, the characteristic sag of one side of his thin mouth to denote disapproval, the sudden contortions of carefully thoughtout anger. However he has changed over the years, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko has also remained the same: the enduring personification...
...estimates of the untabulated raw votes by candidate had Mondale running close. California, like New Jersey, has a process in which delegates are elected directly by districts. Even a slight edge in popularity is usually enough to sweep a district, since voters tend to pick a candidate's full slate of delegates...
...Patricia McClurg, an administrator with Andrews in Atlanta. The 45-year-old McClurg would have been the first woman to lead a major Christian church. But her candidacy was quickly squashed by the General Assembly's own nominating committee, which passed over McClurg without explanation and announced a slate of Thompson and Andrews. Perhaps, remarked McClurg, the committee felt that the men "looked exactly like what a Stated Clerk should look like." Two other men were nominated from the floor...
...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...
...Richardson aide said yesterday that the money was given to the Dukakis gubernatorial campaign slate, of which Kerry was a part...