Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of reasons for staying out, among them that she could not maintain personal contact with voters. Said she: "I could not bear to turn every human contact into a photo opportunity." Schroeder would have been a long shot, but she could have added color and flair to a bland field...
Twenty years ago, the Motown Sound was no longer a great breakthrough. It still produced hits, but the misses were coming more often. Florence Ballard left the Supremes. Holland-Dozier-Holland left the label to write on their own. Civil rights activists criticized Motown stars for catering to the bland tastes of the while, pop-music...
Biden's withdrawal will probably not have any profound effect on the Democratic race. Rivals did fear that he could eventually become a serious threat, since his hot oratory made him stand out from a rather bland field. But he was running near the bottom of national polls among Democrats. He had done better in Iowa, which will select the first delegates to the Democratic Convention in caucuses next Feb. 8, but even there his support seems likely to scatter too widely to make much difference. Analysis of the second choices of probable caucus-goers polled by the Des Moines...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette...
Doubles: 1, Bland-Henikoff, H, def. Vogel-Chua, BU, 6-2, 6-3; 2, Christina Dragomirescu-DeLone, H, def. KimIson, BU, 7-5, 6-2;3, Austrian-Mulvehal, H, def. Pastoriza-Jasaitis...