Word: esteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves to thank. With sophisticated computers and tracking polls, each network was able to predict early on not only Reagan's reelection victory but also its magnitude. Much controversy followed network coverage of the presidential election in 1980, when NBC predicted Reagan's victory at 8:15 p.m. EST, long before Western polls had closed. Members of Congress advocated network self-restraint. But CBS, NBC and ABC rightly noted that there exists little if any evidence to suggest that early projections after voter turnout. That said, at least two networks went out of their way on Tuesday to appear cautious...
...Governors D R Won 15 17 Won 240 171 Won 4 8 Leading 1 0 Leading 11 13 Leading 1 0 Holdovers 31 36 99th Trend 251 184 Holdovers 29 8 99th Trend 47 53 98the Congress 267 168 Trend 34 16 98th Congress 45 55 Change (Est) R +16 Current 35 15 Change (Est) D +2 Change (Est...
...nearly a decade, Joseph Diego Ramirez, 37, has ranked as one of the softest touches in Princeton, Minn. (est. pop. 3,200). He contributed a reported $10,000 to landscape city hall with new lawns and tropical palms, leased two Volkswagen Rabbits to the police force for $1 a year, lent a local group $500,000, interest free, to help build a hockey arena, and spent another half a million dollars to lengthen the runway of the municipal airport. Then, in a sharp turn of events, Ramirez presented himself two weeks ago at the nearby St. Paul jail in response...
...members of the Northeast Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with...
...Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...