Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alan Baron, editor of The Baron Report, among other participants, indirectly connected George Bush to this theory during a subsequent discussion. He suggested that journalists "should go back and examine the records" of such "out-sider" candidates who have little or no experience as elected national figures...
...have proliferated, the role of the parties has diminished. The candidate builds his personal campaign structure. This tightly knit, often amateur group, its fortunes wedded to one man, is inevitably antagonistic to the party, a situation that carries over to the White House when the winner arrives there. Alan Baron, who was a chief instigator of party reforms and now publishes a newsletter, the Baron Report, in Washington, feels that Carter won "on the basis of being able to appeal successfully to individual voters, not on the basis of building coalitions and forging ties among various groups that are necessary...
...than anyone else in the world; 600 horses wear his light and dark green racing silks. Exceller, a horse he bought for $25,000, later earned more than $1.5 million in prize money. After Hunt became the first American to win both the French and English derbies, in 1976, Baron Guy de Rothschild, president of the French Breeders Association, restricted many French races to horses bred in European Community countries...
...assassination, Booth's escape and supposed death after a twelve-day hunt, and the mysterious burial. The Pinkerton man, a former Union spy, leaves no headstone unturned tracking the actor, a onetime Confederate agent. It is a harrowing assignment, leading him to prod such sacred cows as Robber Baron Jay Gould and General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's spymaster. By carriage, train, boat and balloon, Cosgrove stumbles on one denouement after another -though the last and most dramatic is supplied by Colonel Croft...