Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government narrowly lost a vote of confidence in March, both major parties emphasized that Britain faced a clear choice. Callaghan offered a continuation of the moderate social democratic policies that have dominated British political and economic life since the end of World War II. Thatcher presented a clear break with the socialist past, advocating a return to the market economy and a retrenching of Britain's welfare state. As some commentators saw it, Labor, in a reversal of traditional roles, had become the party of established orthodoxy, while the Conservatives advocated radical reform...
Perhaps the bad break on that shot epitomizes the linksters' season. The team finished with a "very mediocre" 7-5 record, Dales said. "Throughout the season we could never get five good scores--we'd always get a couple but just not enough," he added...
...advance somehow) leads him into some egregious mistakes in reporting and analysis. It's crucial to Halberstam's argument, for instance, that when the Los Angeles Times finally gave Nixon "fair" coverage in the 1962 California governor's race, asked tough questions, allowed his opponent equal space. Nixon would break down and reveal his paranoia. So Halberstam completely distorts the famous "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more" press conference after Nixon lost that race. Quoting only one Nixon sentence, Halberstam claims that Nixon completely lost control and launched into a screed against the press...
Despite the 8-1 score the rest of the Harvard squad played solid tennis. Dan Pompan stayed closer to nationally-ranked Jay Lapidus than the 6-2, 6-3 score indicates, dropping several 3-3 points, including a number of chances to break the Tiger star's serve...
Andy Chaikovsky stayed close to possible All-American Leif Shiras. The 6-4, 6-3 match might have been different had Chaikovsky not volleved the ball into the top of the net with the score 3-3 in the game that gave Shiras his crucial break in the first...