Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pollsters, forget your focus groups. consultants, toss away your tracking polls. Campaign managers, abandon your game strategies. I am in unique possession of absolutely foolproof information about the results of the 1996 election. I have access to an infallible campaign crystal ball that has been tried, tested and proved right over and over again. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my father, my own vox pop, Robert B. Stengel, 75, a man who has voted in every presidential election since 1944 and has never once voted for a losing candidate. Not once. Ever...
Today, Clinton named Charlotte investment banker and Washington outsider Erskine Bowles as his new chief of staff. Leon Panetta is leaving that post. Laura D'Andrea Tyson will abandon her post as head of the National Economic Council. Two other high-ranking aides, George Stephanopolous and Rahm Emanuel, are also departing...
...weed out a costly round of primaries for a Democratic Party that, for all practical purposes, was the only party at the polls, the Republicans usually fielding a challenger in name only. But with the emergence of an increasingly stronger Republican Party, critics argue that it is time to abandon an electoral process that they claim dilutes party meaning and favors candidates--and their constituents--from the political margins. For example, many political observers believe that the open primary facilitated the rise of former Klansman David Duke...
...Stanford-led coalition of college students is now attempting to force U.S. News and World Report to abandon its rankings or switch to a system that groups top schools together. The coalition wants colleges and universities to withhold data from the magazine until it reforms its list. Nothing could be more ridiculous...
...Stanford-led coalition of students at universities across the nation is fighting to force U.S. News and World Report to abandon or fundamentally alter its annual ranking of colleges...