Word: fights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. Next came a lunch with Carter and Rosalynn at the White House. "I am seriously considering entering the race," Kennedy told the President. Replied Carter: "I am definitely planning to run." Later Carter said to his advisers: "Kennedy understands that if he comes in, he will have a fight on his hands...
...Senator moved still closer to an announcement when he found himself holding an impromptu press conference at a Kennedy Center benefit. He indicated that he would be willing to run even if it meant a primary fight, and he pledged to decide before the primary deadlines (the first is Jan. 11). Said Kennedy: "I've always believed in the primary system. I think it would be a hard-fought battle, both the nomination and the election. I think this will be an opportunity to discuss the issues and the alternatives to problems...
...embattled Jimmy Carter has proved anything, it is that he savors a political fight. "It's a challenge," says a top White House staffer. "We fought a tougher fight in 1976 and won, and we're going to win this one too." Carter promises to battle to the last delegate. "It may be an Armageddon," warns an aide. "But he's never going to pull...
...Connally has not decided whether to fight Reagan in the California primary on June 3, but the Texan's supporters in California have been working hard to strengthen his chances. They are trying to change the present law under which the victor in the California primary -undoubtedly Reagan -would automatically win all of California's 168 delegates to next year's G.O.P. convention. The anti-Reagan forces would like to revise the law so that if no candidate got 50% of the primary vote, the huge California delegation would be proportionately divided among the winner...
...designed a reputable test on which blacks do as well as whites.* He estimated that a quarter of the IQ gap was due to environmental and cultural differences, the rest to genetics. Liberal academics and blacks denounced Jensen as a racist. Margaret Mead and others staged an unsuccessful fight to strip the professor of his status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the uproar over the Jensenist heresy, one black psychologist angrily called IQ testing "a multimillion-dollar supermarket of oppression," and the National Education Association urged a moratorium on all IQ tests...