Word: cunningham
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...Republican resurgence," exulted G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock. That was putting it too strongly, but Republicans around the country did have something to cheer about. In a special congressional by-election in Washington's Seattle area last week, State Senator Jack Cunningham, 46, stunned Democrat Marvin Burning, 47, by winning a handy 54.2% of the vote. That means the G.O.P. has won two out of three congressional races this, year; earlier, Republican Arlan Stangeland won in Minnesota, though Democrat Wyche Fowler prevailed in Georgia...
...lanky 6-ft. 4-in. plastics manufacturer, Cunningham scored his upset in a traditionally liberal Democratic district that had been represented for twelve years by Brock Adams, Carter's Secretary of Transportation. Among its 243,000 voters are heavy concentrations of minorities and blue collar workers. Though a staunch conservative, Cunningham made unemployment his top issue. He labeled his opponent an "environmental extremist" whose no-growth policies would cost the state jobs. He argued that, by proposing to cut defense spending, Durning would eliminate still more employment...
Dance is hardly a new phenomenon at the University. Radcliffe has offered courses in dance since the 1940s. Claire Mallardi, a former pupil of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, has headed the program since 1965, supervising the production of one performance each year...
...varsity jumped to a lead at the start and gradually built it up, rowing at 36 strokes per minute. At 500 meters "we all expected that we would win," new stroke Kevin Cunningham said yesterday...
...exhausting," Cunningham said after the race, but he added that if Navy had been closer, Harvard could have given even more. "We were in control," he said, telling quite a different story from the last two weeks...