Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SAN DIEGO--Commissioner Peter Ueberroth called on baseball Tuesday to "show the way" for society in its battle with drugs, while teams began the slow process of rebuilding for a new season at the sport's annual winter convention.
To this end, the organization plans to establish a sister-school relationship with a university in the Soviet Union, host a weekend-long convention of area Slavic students, and strengthen ties with the local emigree community, co-founder Thomas M. Kearney '87 said.
"Our trainer saw it at a convention and told me about it, " he says. "The kids wore it. Every kid liked it."
Perhaps the answer might have been for Mao to have thrown convention completely to the wind and to have played the whole thing for outrageous laughs. This would have been both innovative and also set a more stable tone for the production.
To his credit, Kirk has made some attempts at substantiative change since he took over the DNC--primarily in attacking the interest-group image. He has eliminated all minority caucuses besides the women's caucus, urged interest-group leaders (especially Lane Kirkland of the AFL-CIO) not to endorse candidates...