Word: battleground
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...argument over the campaign's central message raged all through March. Matters finally came to a head in early April as Yeltsin prepared to give a speech unveiling his campaign program. That address was expected to signal the campaign's substance and tone, and it became a major battleground for control of the campaign. In a nine-point memo dated April 2 that covered content, theme and staging, the team wrote that the "overall goal of the kickoff speech [should be] to demonstrate to the average Russian that Yeltsin understands the suffering the country has been going through...The President...
...needs in a running mate. He is a Californian (Orange County) who can help the Kansan win the Golden State's treasure trove of 54 electoral votes. Cox also is a Roman Catholic who grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, thus appealing to the swing ethnic voters in the battleground states in the Midwest. And he has elite credentials: law and business degrees from Harvard and a staff job in the Reagan White House. His biggest drawback: someone so young would make Dole seem older than he already is. But the same was said about Dan Quayle...
...battleground is in the school committee, which the Cambridge mayor chairs, and which recently emerged from its most acrimonious budget debate in a decade...
...nearly a quarter century, rent control was the cornerstone of Cambridge politics. The issue was both the litmus test for local politicians and the battleground over which they frequently and passionately fought...
...Hard-to-Get. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a tax-cutting Governor of a battleground state, called Dole weeks ago and said she didn't want to be considered for the No. 2 spot. That's usually a sign that someone wants the job badly. But since then, Whitman, 49, hasn't merely closed the door, she has locked it. Whitman made herself unacceptable when she announced last month that she opposed not only the party's strict antiabortion platform plank but also a ban on partial-birth abortions. That pro-choice stance has made her anathema to party...