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Word: bandwagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political bandwagon is full to capacity as hundreds of national and state leaders jump aboard. But while the bandwagon keeps stopping to pick up more players, the riders are missing the boat...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Drug War Games | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...courtroom being interrogated all summer long. I responded, "Perhaps our country is naive. Its response is like a crowd, where individual views are transformed into a single decisive posture or character. When one person declares he/she is afraid to travel, many more suddenly jump on the bandwagon...

Author: By William H. Berkman, | Title: Fear of Flying | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...once the national women's movement gathered steam, the Radcliffe Class of 1961 joined the bandwagon. Fully 81 percent of the alumnae who responded to a recent 25th reunion poll said that the attempt to pass an Equal Rights Amendment and the women's movement had affected them personally...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Calm Before the Feminist Storm | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Tuesday. Over the past year, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri and Tennessee decided to stage primaries on the second Tuesday in March. Mississippi is expected to follow suit in the next week or two. If, as anticipated, several other Southern states--including North Carolina and, most prominently, Texas--get on the bandwagon, then Super Tuesday will need a new superlative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South Shall Rise Again: Mega Tuesday | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...while, Ponder furiously searched for money. His pitch was that he would run Fisk as a business, in the black. In time he got local banks, corporations and his alumni association on the bandwagon, as well as a deeply concerned Nashville businessman, Ben Rechter, whose support at last look came to half a million dollars. At the beginning of 1986 the debt was down to $890,000. Ponder pledges that it will be erased by commencement this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nashville: Fisk Makes a Comeback | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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