Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President makes plain his conservative views on abortion, school prayer and affirmative action, he has shunned active involvement in the right- wing campaigns on social causes. Meese is more than happy to jump into the fray and get his hands dirty. "He represents us on the conservative social issues. It's his franchise," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "He speaks with the voice of the President if not at his specific direction...
...political- action committee has raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty much shunned the fray, Television Evangelist Pat Robertson's Freedom Council, his educational charity, is busy recruiting potential precinct candidates...
Although he was assured of an easy victory for his own National Assembly seat, no French politician campaigned harder during the recent parliamentary elections than Jacques Chirac. Hurling himself into the fray, Chirac traveled nearly 200,000 miles, visited some 170 districts and made 150 public appearances. For Chirac, who will return to the offices in the elegant Hotel de Matignon where he served between 1974 and 1976 as Premier under then President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, all the hard work was a natural extension of the drive that has made him one of France's most formidable political figures...
...great convenience," said Ted M. Doolittle '86, who also stayed during last spring break. Before there was a vacation meal plan, he said, "It was kind of a pain--a lot of people would have to store up cereals," even though Friends of Harvard Rowing helped fray some of the costs by giving each oarsman $30 for the week...
...stood facing his own bench, arms out-stretched to keep his outraged players from jumping into the fight--and the efforts of Colgate Coach Terry Slater--who at one point grabbed a hold of Waslen's jersey to try and prevent him from rejoining the fray--the battle was confined to the players...