Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's aides admit, there is a catch. They still assume the nominee will be Mondale, and are well prepared for a campaign against him. They will assail him as an oldfashioned, free-spending, solve-every-problem-with-a-new-Government-program liberal, and as the Vice President in the highly unpopular Carter Administration to boot. But just suppose Hart wins? The Republicans have not even begun to figure out what his vulnerabilities might be and how they might attack him. One top White House aide was asking reporters last week, in tones of genuine curiosity: "What does this...
...voters can drop the ballots into the urna without marking them, signifying assent, or they can step into the booth and cross out the name of the approved candidate, even going so far as to write in another name. The catch-22 is that write-in candidates have no chance; all winners need official approval. The only suspense is how close to 100% each district can come. Anything below a 99% turnout is unthinkable. After the last elections, in 1979, TASS reported a 99.99% turnout, with 174,734,459 people voting for the official candidate and 185,422 either voting...
...could sense George slipping out of control. I knew if I failed to step in and calm him down. George would have to sit out school for a week. I would catch hell from Mom and probably lose car privileges...
...students registered in September) is the system's strength and its weakness. "It has a large variety of courses and lots of different kinds of people, but because the system is so large, you can lose students who will then float around for four years--it's a Catch-22 situation," Doyle says...
Over at Buckingham Palace, meanwhile, the reigning royal catch himself, Prince Andrew, was being entertained on his 24th birthday by the family of his latest lovely, Katie Rabett, 23. Andrew, who met the bonny Rabett at a Halloween party last year, is said to have received the nod of approval from the Queen, who was not at all amused by his earlier, well-publicized adventures with Starlet Koo Stark. For their part, Katie's parents (he is a well-established London gynecologist) seemed to have no objections. Their daughter, who has modeled and acted...