Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferraro knew there was no limit on how much a candidate could spend in personal funds to run for Congress. She says she was advised by a volunteer lawyer in her campaign that she could borrow money from her husband and the trust funds of their three children. She chose this course, getting the first of four loans totaling $134,000 from them in May 1978. Once her campaign got rolling, she expected enough donations to repay the loans...
...point lead that was close to the President's margin among all people polled. But among women younger than 35, the Mondale-Ferraro ticket managed a 38%-to-38% tie, with 24% undecided. Age made much less difference among male voters: those over 35 chose Reagan by 50% to 26%, and younger...
...Vancouver, B.C., vowing to "lead Liberalism back to Western Canada"-a reference to the fact that in the 1980 general election the Liberals won only two seats west of Ontario. And it was because the Conservatives represent only one out of the 75 parliamentary constituencies in Quebec that Mulroney chose to run from his home town in that province. After the regional antagonism of the Trudeau years, with French-speaking Quebec at odds with the English-speaking sections of the country, Canadians have for the most part welcomed this attempt at national political unity. Indeed, it is now taken...
...opening, which has included amnesty for political prisoners, a partial lifting of censorship and more opposition-party participation in government. The results of the conventions, however, could signal not only the end of military control but the beginning of rule by an opposition party. The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party chose as its candidate Tancredo Neves, 74, a moderate, avuncular lawyer and governor of Minas Gerais state. Political analysts say he has a good chance of winning...
...blacks as well as the entire U.S. And they came home not to acclaim (few Viet Nam vets received that) but to reminders that racism was still a fact of American life. Terry decided that this story should be told and that the blacks involved should tell it. He chose his narrators carefully: grunts, noncoms, officers, from all four branches of the armed services, from backgrounds both urban and rural. The composite that emerged after years of interviewing is a portrait not just of warfare and warriors but of beleaguered patriotism and pride...