Word: belonged
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...issues, the candidates often seem to echo the platform of the party to which they do not belong. Durkin, for example, backs a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, while Rudman is against it. More true to his party, Durkin opposes oil price deregulation and attacks the oil companies every chance he gets--a popular thing to do in New Hampshire, whose residents pay more for home heating oil than citizens in many other states. Rudman favors deregulation but also suggests using a windfall profits tax on the oil companies to help pay the cost of heating oil for the poor...
...Buckley can't play, Restic says, the quarterback job will belong to junior Mark Marion, who started against Princeton, or "possibly Allard...
Gazit is excited about his work at the CfIA, but his past is still very much a part of his life. "I belong to the generation of the Israeli War for Independence," he says...
Meanwhile, a Soviet diplomat called at the Foreign Office in Tokyo and claimed for Moscow whatever treasure was found; his stand was backed by Kyushu University's Hideo Takabayashi, a professor of international law. Abandoned warships, said Takabayashi, unlike abandoned merchantmen, continue to belong to the governments whose flag they once flew. Not so, said the Japanese Foreign Office. The find, it held, belonged to neither the Soviet nor the Japanese government...
...your Essay pairing poets laureate with presidential candidates [Aug. 25], I was surprised to find that "James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter." Why, exactly? It is true that I was asked to write a poem and deliver it at President Carter's Inauguration, which I did. I was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress during Johnson's Administration, but poets are not allowed to pick their Presidents. My political sympathies at the time were in no sense with the late President, but with then Senator Eugene McCarthy...