Word: fights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slambang political fight, complete with barrages of print and TV ads, one crafted by George Bush's campaign guru Roger Ailes. Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena politicked incessantly around town. When the vote came in, several hundred giddy campaign workers shouted themselves hoarse in a jammed downtown hotel ballroom. The turnout, 41% of registered voters, would have been respectable for a congressional or gubernatorial election. In fact, the balloting was a special election in which Denver residents last Tuesday voted 63% to 37% to build a $2.3 billion new airport -- the first to be constructed...
...edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would gather to watch this display. I don't know why they did it. Maybe because I wouldn't fight the way they wanted me to fight. They wanted a fight they could win. And my way of winning was just to hang in there." He refused to be a sissy, so he would be Sisyphus...
...obliged to declare the election null and void. That decision was widely interpreted as an admission by Noriega that given such a lopsided vote, not even he could foist Duque on his country. Vowed Ricardo Arias Calderon, the coalition's candidate for First Vice President: "We will continue to fight by all peaceful means...
...Trump's nearly final $365 million agreement to buy Eastern's shuttle operations was put in jeopardy again last week when Phoenix-based America West Airlines offered to pay some $25 million more for the shuttle, plus $335 million for ten additional Eastern aircraft. Northwest, meanwhile, is trying to fight off a takeover by Denver oilman Marvin Davis, who has bid $2.6 billion for the airline...
WORLD: Despite common wisdom, mujahedin rebels are bogged down in their fight against the Afghan regime...