Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, they said, there have been fewer registration events in Cambridge during this presidential campaign than in others...
...might seem strange that commercials would play such an important role on Homewood Avenue when a flesh-and-blood candidate, Dukakis, was appearing last Tuesday at the Jeep plant, less than a mile away. But in a TV era, Dukakis was glimpsed by fewer than a thousand chosen Toledo residents during his four hours in the city. Local television was his true target. While the early- evening news stressed Dukakis' planned message ("I care about working men and women"), the media glow quickly dissipated. By 11 p.m., Dukakis was upstaged on two of the three local newscasts by a murder...
...time the Quayle entourage arrived in Omaha, the staff had reduced bulky briefing books to fewer than 30 index cards with probable questions and answers. Some of the preparation paid off: Quayle had already scripted and rehearsed an answer for what turned out to be the evening's single slightly unusual question, ABC correspondent Brit Hume's query about books that had influenced...
...what's a Jewish entrepreneur going to do with a 500-acre Christian theme park, a born-again retirement village and North America's biggest all- Christian cable TV network (sent to 13 million homes, 2 million fewer than before the scandal)? "I have made no decision whatsoever" he told a press conference but said the project, with 1,700 undeveloped acres, is a good investment with excellent "breakup value." The local church that Bakker founded is not involved...
Throughout the 32-year history of Ivy League football, fewer than 15 Blacks have played quarterback, an average of one every two years. Only twice since the conference was formed in 1956 have two Blacks lined up behind center in the same game...