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Word: dixons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show up, but Polley gave his sample anyway. Perkins facetiously countered with a challenge to take lie-detector tests, AIDS tests and chest X rays. Other candidates publicly joining in include Republican Congressman Thomas Kindness of Ohio, who is running against Senator John Glenn, and Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Bottle Lines | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...told, women won 39 nominations for Senate and House seats and eight more for gubernatorial office this year. Earlier in the year, State Representative Judy Koehler was picked as the Illinois Republican challenger to incumbent Senator Alan Dixon. More recently, Alaska State Senator Arliss Sturgulewski swept past eight male rivals in a Republican gubernatorial primary, and Missouri Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods handily took her state's % Democratic Senate nomination. Last week Connecticut State Representative Julie Belaga defeated heavily endorsed former State Senator Richard Bozzuto for the Republican nomination for Governor. Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Carolyn Warner, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Petticoat Politics | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard refused to play without him, making Pierce the first black to play in an intersectional game below the Mason-Dixon line...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: How to Strangle a Bulldog | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...Some of our friends said you need to give $1million to go [to the 350th]. But you don't needto," says John Dixon '43. Representatives werepicked for their involvement in their class andgeographic diversity, says Dixon, who hails fromSouth Carolina...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: No Presents, Please | 9/5/1986 | See Source »

...governmental agencies need the flexibility to settle complex civil rights litigation short of trial when the settlement is in the best interests of both parties." Still, the sailing for the Cleveland Vanguards might not be all that clear. Promptly after the decision, a lawyer for Local 93, Robert A. Dixon, said the union would return to district court and pursue civil rights actions on behalf of individual nonminority fire fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Solid Yes to Affirmative Action | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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