Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African, I appeal to the American voters to re-elect Reagan. He is the only leader who can check the Soviets...
...sneaks up for a microphone check? None other than our own I. Logan Evans '86, resident politico cum publicity hound...
...result of changing electoral democraphics and the President's personal popularity, the Republicans will pick up some seats--maybe 12 or 15. But such a number won't be enough to disturb the Democratic check on policy...
Hunting season keeps Madison on the run, working twelve hours a day and often at night. Acting on tips, Madison checks up on hunters who may have killed more than the annual limit of one deer and one elk; he is also on the alert for out-of-staters illegally using cheap resident hunting licenses. Once at a road check he arrested some men from Kansas after finding two illegal elk concealed behind a false wall in their camping trailer. Their fines totaled $2,400. They paid cash: 24 $100 bills...
...more to their column in Utah, where popular Democratic Governor Scott Matheson is resigning. State Speaker of the House Norman Bangerter, 51, a Republican, has been running about 10 points ahead of Democrat Wayne Owens, 47, a former Congressman. Owens has been reduced to pleading for votes as a check on the G.O.P.'s possession of every top elective job in the state. In Missouri, where the incumbent is ineligible to run again, Republican Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, is locked in a close contest with Lieutenant Governor Kenneth Rothman...