Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being a Democrat in Nassau County might best be defined as the politics of the down and out. We have no inspiring candidates, close to no money and almost no voter support. We are used to losing, and probably wouldn't even know what to do if we won. The result is one-party, closed-door government, running local affairs with no effective opposition...
Massachusetts state elections are still a year away, but Republican candidates are already looking to 1990 as their best chance in decades to steal major state offices from the seemingly invincible Massachusetts Democratic Party...
Another advantage is a split among leading Democrats over how best to remedy this situation. Republicans say that instead they are concentrating their forces on the campaign year ahead...
...contests the marketing bonanza now enjoyed by the NFL, and the NBA is doing its best to emulate the success of its fellow professional sports league. But while the NBA's television contracts continue to soar, especially its cable deals, it should join the NFL in going back to high school geography...
...best divisional rivalries can be found in the two divisions with the tightest geographical breakdown--both Central Divisions. The Black and Blue division in the NFC, with Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota and Detroit, is equalled in intensity only by the Pittsburgh-Cleveland-Cincinnati showdowns...