Word: contests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...booters begin their season today with a 3 p.m. contest against MIT at Ohiri Field...
...star, was asked to referee a neighborhood game. Vaughn, who had helped many youngsters develop their court skills as an incentive to go to college, made some calls that angered the gamblers. He was followed off the playground and fatally beaten by a known thug. The stakes in the contest were estimated...
...called a national election, but a presidential contest is really a set of 50 simultaneous state elections. And the grand prize goes to the candidate who can put together victories in the right combination of states to win the magic 270 electoral votes. In recent years, that has been easy for Republicans, given their virtual lock on the electoral votes of the South and West. But this year Michael Dukakis and George Bush start from a near standoff in the number of electoral votes represented by states solidly for them or leaning their way. So the election seems likely...
...industry. Insurance companies are retaliating with three initiatives designed to reduce their payouts. As advocates of the rival measures trade barbs and hustle votes, they are spending plenty -- $60 million, $40 million of which will come from the insurance industry. It is by far the most expensive state election contest ever waged, costing close to two-thirds of the $100 million that the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are expected to spend this year...
Like all other U.S. elections, this one will boil down to individual skirmishes in a handful of key states. Seven of the largest, with a total of 184 votes, form the no-man's-land in which the contest will be decided. Says Republican Consultant Stuart Spencer: "It's going to be a hell of a fight, with no prisoners taken. In the end, they'll be in the same states." What makes the current map such a crazy quilt is that the major battlegrounds stretch from New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the East through Ohio, Michigan and Illinois...