Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alabama has already asked the Justices to review a lower-court decision striking down a state law that gives students a choice between prayer and meditation. In New Jersey a federal district court disallowed a law that does not even mention prayer but simply authorizes "quiet and private contemplation or introspection." Despite this ruling, several New Jersey schools still offer students a voluntary minute of silent meditation...
...neighboring Vermont (Hart, 70% to 20%). That infectious sense of political possibility caught on and spread west and to the Deep South, where the contenders, variously giddy and panicked, prepared for this week's contests.* "The situation has changed totally," said Joan Bowen, Hart's coordinator in Alabama, where virtually no organization existed last month. "With a victory under his belt, people say, 'Hey, I like him!' They're coming out of the woodwork...
...much, perhaps, but Hart skillfully exploited the burst of TV exposure. His elaborate policy prescriptions were distilled to catch phrases such as "new leadership" and "move into the future." His adoption of John F. Kennedy's mannerisms became more blatant. Addressing the Alabama legislature, Hart chopped the air in J.F.K. style and recapitulated the 1961 Inaugural Address. Said Hart: "We must once again have Presidents...who ask what we can do for our country and not what our country...
...South was not just fun and games. The candidates tended to their big-picture strategies too. For Glenn, said his aide Boyd Campbell, Alabama was "the goal-line stand, the whole ball of wax." Mondale predicted he would win unionized Alabama (214,000 AFL-CIO members), where the Mondale family has campaigned in 63 of 67 counties, and was also hoping to finish first in Georgia. In the South, Hart might be satisfied to win only Florida. Jesse Jackson's biggest test had arrived: if he does not do well in Southern states where blacks constitute...
Baskets by Alabama's Terry Williams and Bobby Lee Hurt cut the margin to one, 47-46, with 55 to play. Williams hit a jumper from the free throw line with 41 seconds left to play put Alabama back...