Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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YESTERDAY'S RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 8 Milwaukee 7 Texas 7 Detroit 14 Seattle 2 Boston 4 Kansas City 6 Toronto(10 in) 4 Cleveland 1 Chicago 6 New York(in 12th) 6 California 6 Baltimore(10) 4 Oakland 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles 4 Montreal 5 San Francisco 4 New York 7 Cincinnati 2 Chicago 5 Houston 7 Pittsburgh 4 Florido 0 Atlanta 3 St. Louis 6 Colorado 5 San Diego(ppd) Philadelphia...
Jerry Voorhis, a popular liberal Democrat, had won five straight elections in the 12th Congressional District east of Los Angeles, but a group of local businessmen hoped to unseat him. Nixon promised them "an aggressive and vigorous campaign." He began working up to 20 hours a day, making speeches about his war experiences, denouncing the New Deal. When Pat gave birth to their first daughter Patricia (Tricia), Nixon was out campaigning. (Confident of re-election, he stayed home when Julie was born two years later...
Within weeks of her nomination's withdrawal, however, Guinier found an unlikely ally. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor ruled that districts like North Carolina's serpentine 12th were "bizarre" and might be challenged as perpetuating "political apartheid." Many voting-rights champions, facing language that seemed to question their very enterprise, were stymied...
...bade it change -- not by adding a black-majority enclave, but by adopting one of Guinier's reviled alternatives, cumulative voting. Meanwhile, the New York Times had published a speculative plan drafted by the Washington-based Center for Voting and Democracy explaining how North Carolina could erase its troublesome 12th * in favor of the same system. Suddenly one of Lani's Follies looked like it might be the wave of the future...
...University of Minnesota. Where the golf season is as short as the 12th at Augusta, keeping Lehman's prodigious driving length in check into almost May and June during his formulative years...