Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans scrutinized the maps closely, they began yelling like devotees of primal-scream therapy. Burton had carved the state into a patchwork of jags and jigs, all designed to create as many Democratic districts as possible. The 27th District, traditionally a Republican stronghold, once hugged the coastline; now dubbed the "anteater's snout," it turns inland at Santa Monica and travels along a Democratic corridor just a few blocks wide into the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Burton also proved to be his brother's keeper: to preserve the seat of his sibling, Democratic Congressman John Burton...
...says be told his tour colleagues on the evening of the 27th (at a group meeting that Horner says she does not recall) that "I would not sign it--I made a speech about it. "The reason, according to Jordan; "I did not go on the tour to send telegrams. I went on it to learn something." Lobbying for the AWACS sale "was not appropriate," Jordan stresses, that's why I voted against it" at the group meeting...
...scene unfolded in the Georgia house. The gallery was hushed as a red or green light flashed next to lawmakers' names on the voting board. The final vote: 116 to 57 against. ERA backers stood and silently filed out. With those defeats in Oklahoma and Georgia, the proposed 27th Amendment to the Constitution may have lost its last hope for ratification...
...Scouts and Girl Scouts, homosexual marriages, a military draft for women. Their arguments evidently got a sympathetic hearing. Said Senator Norman Lamb: "I hope and pray that women, ladies and girls will not be dragged down to the level of men by the passage of the 27th Amendment." The ERA's broad constitutional language worked against it in the end. Said Darlene Ramming of Hinton, Okla.: "It doesn't say enough. It's like a blank check...
...euphoria in New York disappeared with Christmas. On the 27th New York had one less team in the playoffs, following the failure of Todd's last-minute comeback attempt against the Bills. The Giants, however, upset Philadelphia, scoring a surprising knockout of last year's NFC representative in the Super Bowl. The magic didn't carry over to the next week when San Francisco demolished New York's last survivors, 38-24. After all, by then it was already...