Word: casted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, a field of six candidates is narrowed down to a two-man race. Then a front-runner is chosen by widespread media acclamation before even a single vote is cast. The remaining candidates are forced to campaign less against the favorite than against the polls which dominate the nominating procedures of both parties...
...captured the heavyweight championship in 1908, the urgent search began for a "great white hope" to reclaim the crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks for the first time started on three pro teams: Randall Cunningham for the Philadelphia Eagles, Warren Moon for the Houston Oilers and Douglas Williams for the Super Bowl-bound Washington Redskins...
...imaginary like a pun-obsessed spin-off of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, and has a similarly political bent. Set in 1952, it sketches deft parallels between the paranoia induced by a serial killer and the mania generated by McCarthy-era blacklisting. The plot is merely serviceable and the cast of characters sprawling rather than sharply defined, but the machine-gun barrage of witticisms from its formidable ladies is either a well-researched compendium of bons mots or a wholly convincing imitation...
...there and work in Des Moines. She will meet precinct Co-Chairwoman Jean Siegrist, and they will check the coffeemaker, open up the doors and wait for their fellow Republicans to arrive. When the greetings are over, they will bring the caucus to order and ask their neighbors to cast the secret ballot that is the crucial straw vote on the presidential candidates. The count will be tallied and then beamed around the world. "It's a pretty amateurish affair," says Mrs. Hoy. "We sort of stumble through it, but it seems to work." The story of these United States...
After Iowa and New Hampshire, the field narrows drastically, long before voters in larger states can cast a ballot. Most candidates must adopt an identical strategy: labor mightily for an early kill while preparing for an endurance run later. Schedule and rules, far more than issues and message, dominate...