Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale had been endorsed by every major union except the Teamsters, who opted for Reagan. After stumbling badly in the early primaries, Mondale relied on union money and muscle to grind down Gary Hart in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. "Without labor, we would not have been the nominee," admits one Mondale strategist...
...matter more difficult to define. Their agenda includes as well the "mop-up" of all discriminatory legislation against women and the severe patrol of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which grants women protection against any form of citizen discrimination. Where their agenda leads, no one knows-except that it is akin to the black agenda: always more and always in the name of equality...
...primary system today bounces crazily from state to state, hobbled by bizarre party regulations, dominated by the dramatic needs of television. Few except scholars and specialists understand the labyrinthine rules that govern the sequence of nomination. New York has changed its nominating rules four times in the past four elections. In California, once a winner-take-all state, no candidate now runs statewide-and no one yet knows by how many votes Hart whipped Mondale in the Democratic primary. In Texas a voter must vote once on Saturday morning and once more in the evening to have his vote count...
There they could do nothing except repeat horror stories of the chaos and carnage that had swept through more than 80 cities. In a camp set up in the Gandhi Memorial Higher School in Delhi, one Sikh survivor after another described how friends and loved ones had been murdered. "My three sons were burned alive," quietly began Amrik Singh, a sad-eyed man whose gray beard had been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near...
...umbrella organization for the other nonparticipants was Nicaragua's most prominent opposition group, the Coordinadora, an amalgam of four opposition political parties, labor unions and businessmen led by Arturo Cruz Porras, a former Sandinista junta member. As a result, in Washington's view, no one except the Sandinistas had any chance...