Word: tip
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Carter's campaigners, they expect Anderson to be scoring only 10% or less by election time, still high enough to tip some states-possibly New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania-into Reagan's column and perhaps give him the election. From the beginning, Anderson pledged that he was not entering the race to be a "spoiler." But, barring an unforeseen change, that is the role he seems destined to play...
...next day, after being referred to by House Speaker Tip O'Neill as "Jimmy Roosev ... er ... Jimmy Carter," the President warned that security cannot be attained by "nostalgic or wishful thinking or by bravado." He got a big hand when he pledged: "If a nuclear arms race should be forced upon us, we will compete and compete successfully...
Strauss reached for the phone again and called O'Neill. "Tip, we're ready now," he said. "We're going to take one, and give them two and three." He repeated the instructions twice more in the din, and the loyal O'Neill had his orders. He quickly gaveled the decisions through on voice votes, obviously being guided not at all by the comparative volume of the ayes and nays. When O'Neill declared the President the victor on the plank on wage and price controls despite the fact that the Kennedy forces were almost...
...passage of two minority reports-ignored by Kennedy and actively opposed by Carter-the women added platform demands that candidates who are not in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment be denied party funds and that the Government pay for abortions for poor women. The result was to further tip the platform toward the feminist viewpoint. The platform already included planks demanding equal pay for women, improved child-care programs and support for boycotts of conventions in states that have not ratified...
...noticed that the sculpted ice donkey had melted into something more like a beagle. For the bagpipes played and the booze flowed like the Boyne, and when a group named the Irish Bogtrotters crooned Danny Boy there was hardly a dry eye in the house. The O'casion? Tip O'Neill's party at O'Neal's Baloon, a restaurant near Lincoln Center. "I've been to every Democratic party in town and they all end up in bars like Rosie O'Grady's and O'Neal's," said...