Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women too. Before the polls opened, the campaign's chief claim to a place in the history books had been the Democrats' nomination of Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President. But the presence of a woman on a major party's national ticket for the first time did not widen the gender gap. Polls of people leaving the voting booths indicated that some 54% of female voters pulled the lever for Reagan. That did not quite match the Republican's crushing 62% support among male voters. But it indicated that if the election had been conducted solely...
...Northeast and industrial Midwest were supposed to form the geographic base for the liberal Democratic ticket. But exit polls there signaled a pattern that would be repeated across the country: Mondale could not win the voting groups he had to carry to defeat Reagan...
Standing room only tickets are still available and can be purchased at the Bright Center Ticket Office tonight...
...acquittal by reason of insanity is rarely a ticket to freedom...a person who commits a crime is either responsible enough to deserve punishment or insane enough to deserve commitment...
...vital importance of securing computing systems. It is easy to see the ever increasing role that computers play in our society. They control the fate of "the earth through the Defense Department's vast force of nuclear armaments and early warning systems. From the immediate process of buying a ticket or confirming a reservation to the more general duties of navigation and air-traffic control they determine the fate of every passenger on every plane that takes off on any day. Computers run our banks and, through them, the national economy; they make sure that there are cabbages enough...