Word: eighteens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...episodes of the long trail of 1984 the redefinition of the Democratic Party at its convention in San Francisco. The faces and feel were so completely different that only by effort could I remember the Democratic conventions of the '50s, dominated by Southerners and big-city politicians. Eighteen percent of the delegates in 1984 were black; 6.5% were Hispanic; Indians...
...many of those voting for the President do not agree with him ideologically. According to a late summer survey conducted by Market Opinion Research, a Detroit-based polling firm, Democrats still outnumber Republicans, 33 percent to 23 percent, with a full 33 percent of the electorate identified as independent. Eighteen to 24-year-old voters supported the President most enthusiastically, yet polling shows that younger voters remain the most liberal age group. Much of the Republican's current support can be characterized as limp, perhaps easily swayed...
...year until 1989, according to InfoCorp, a San Jose market-research firm. That is a robust rate for most industries but a brutal disappointment for many of the valley's optimistic entrepreneurs, who were hoping for annual growth of more than 50%. Says InfoCorp Analyst Bob Lefkowits: "Eighteen months ago, everybody was predicting nothing but a rosy future. Now we're beginning to get a more realistic view...
...Chinese proverb has it, "Eighteen goddess-like daughters are not equal to one son with a hump...
...significant study that recently came out of Minneapolis refutes this belief and shows that arrest is the best deterrant to the crime. For a period of eighteen months a group of researchers monitored a police force that had agreed to vary their responses to domestic violence calls. One group of officers arrested the men, another group told the men to take a walk around the block to "cool down" (a common police response to domestic violence calls), and another group tried to mediate between the couple and did not arrest...