Word: abzugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of Houston's Albert Thomas Convention Center late last week in the strong hands of Tennis Star Billie Jean King. She was greeted by some 2,000 determined women chanting "ERA! ERA!"-for the Equal Rights Amendment. Puffed New York City's hefty Bella Abzug, who trotted the last stretch with Billie Jean: "We are here running for equality. We'll never run for cover on this journey...
...just begun to recuperate from the worst of times, more Democrats than ever sought their party's nomination this year. Voters last week confounded conventional wisdom and the pollsters by turning out in record numbers, rejecting both Incumbent Mayor Abe Beame and his ostensibly strongest challenger, Bella Abzug. In the process, the Democrats plucked from a cast of seven hopefuls two fresh faces: Congressman Edward Koch and New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. They must still battle through a runoff next week for the nomination, but it is virtually certain that one of them will emerge from November...
...Abzug and Beame had led all the opinion polls from Christmas right up through late August. But Beame's fatal burden was his poor record as a fiscal manager; although he claimed he had "made the tough decisions" that saved the city from bankruptcy, his chances for political survival were dashed last month when the Securities and Exchange Commission published a staff report damning his performance as deceptive and inept...
...Abzug, who had been the front runner in the polls for nine months, was the most passionate and liberal of the candidates. She backed up her promise to fight the city's economic shrinkage with detailed proposals, campaigning with her usual brio in every neighborhood. In a more conventional race, she would probably have finished at or close to the top. But instead of the predicted one-third turnout, a record 48% of the city's 1.9 million eligible Democratic voters went to the polls, and in the process made a hash of the pre-election surveys. Both...
...long election night, only three percentage points separated the top four candidates: Koch, 20%; Cuomo, 19%; Beame, 18%; Abzug, 17%. For Koch, 52, and Cuomo, 45, the first-round results meant a tough play-off for their party's nomination. The two come from similar backgrounds, agree on more substantive questions than not, and contrast mostly in their personalities and styles...