Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith struggled to his feel shook himself out and returned to the benefit to get his breath with as much poise as Olson ever showed...
...Iowa seems to have a distaste for incumbents--no senator has won a second term there since 1966 Senate Majority leader Howard Baker's decision to step down in Tennessee induced the popular Democrat Rep. Albert Gore Jr. to make a bid for the seat. Gore will probably benefit from a fractious Reublican primary, in which an extreme right-wing religious leader has been viciously attacking his moderate...
...There is only one Republican candidate," says one campaign yet who's not around for the ride this time the ex White House Communication Director, David R. Gergen. He says, "All the sharpshooters are in the same fort Reagan will derive tremendous benefit from this." The one major campaign post yet unfilled is that of media coordinator though Republican officials predict the job will likely to Peter Daly...
...With the benefit of hindsight, many experts concluded that Chernenko's election was predictable. For months his name had appeared near the top of the lists of dignitaries who signed official obituaries. Chernenko's collected writings and speeches were reprinted amid glowing reviews in the press. When workers nominated their candidates for next month's elections to the Supreme Soviet, the nominal parliament, Chernenko along with Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 78, consistently placed second, after Andropov. The selection of Chernenko as chairman of the funeral committee was the final hint...
Reagan is, according to his aides, somewhat more interested in a summit meeting now than he was last year, when he strongly implied there must first be a major breakthrough in the arms-control negotiations. Republican strategists believe the President would benefit from a grand gesture of statesmanship and that even the more modest accomplishment of resuming the stalled talks in Geneva would deprive the Democrats of a potentially damaging issue. "All other things being equal," says an Administration official, "we'd rather that Walter Mondale not be able to go into the campaign accusing us of having presided...