Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson dove for ground balls and capitalized on Princeton's middling stickwork to gain control Saturday. The Tigers were tame compared to how they played at the William and Mary tournament...
...Shamir knows he needs to make a move, if only to escape the impression that he alone is standing still while events run beyond his control. He is expected to arrive with a proposal for elections among the Palestinians in the West Bank, followed by negotiations between those elected representatives and Israel. He wants to buy time by avoiding the question of whether Israeli withdrawal from -- and Arab sovereignty over -- the West Bank might someday be on the agenda of those negotiations. The Bush Administration will probably not insist that he bless the idea of territorial compromise in advance...
...wakes up in the morning, and < the first thing he thinks about is how to become the majority party," says Charles Black, a Republican political consultant. Gingrich is hoping the G.O.P. will win a strategic edge from the redrawing of congressional districts in 1991, an unlikely outcome since Democrats control a majority of the state legislatures that will be redefining the districts...
...real loser was the centrist Christian Democratic Party of incumbent President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is terminally ill with cancer. Having lost control of the legislature to ARENA a year ago, the Christian Democrats will hand over the chief executive's office on June...
...curb the violence, officials have been advocating steps that may verge on martial law. A federal judge last week blocked on constitutional grounds implementation of an 11 p.m. curfew for minors. New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman suggested putting the city's 4,000 beleaguered police under federal control. Congressman Stan Parris, a Virginia Republican, drafted legislation to appoint a federal public-safety administrator. There were even cries for deployment of federal troops or National Guardsmen...