Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinner, though the party had banned such entrance surveys. The gambit failed when police dispersed the polltakers. But a greater problem is that his candidacy just has not caught fire. Instead of getting the chance to break out of the pack in Iowa, Gephardt may doom his candidacy there...
...have begun referring to the date as the beginning of a peace process rather than a cutoff for achieving the accord's goals. "We never expected that peace and democracy would descend from heaven on Nov. 5," insists a Costa Rican official. In Washington, where congressional opposition promises to doom the White House request for $270 million in fresh contra aid, the Reagan Administration is now talking of delaying its pitch until January...
Some Manila newspapers that had been foretelling doom since the August rebellion had a change of heart. "This could be the turning point of the Aquino presidency," wrote the Manila Chronicle. Other papers rushed to publish Aquino's full text. Despite her rightward swing against labor and the Communists, even some of the President's supporters in the moderate left applauded the speech's implications. Indeed, many had felt that her aura of saintliness had got in the way of her politics for too long...
...contras. One can only be hopeful that the Nobel will give Arias credibility in the halls of Washington, D.C. Immediately after winning the peace prize the Costa Rican leader asked Congress not to approve any more aid for the contras. House Speaker Jim Wright said that Arias' Nobel spelled doom for contra aid in Congress...
...wake of the Senate Judiciary Committee's 9-5 rejection yesterday of Judge Robert H. Bork, Harvard experts foretold doom for the Supreme Court nominee and negative repercussions for the Reagan Administration...