Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore hurler Mike Dorrington baffled the Lions for a complete-game win to boost his record to 4-3 on the season. Dorrington scattered just four hits and five walks to hold Columbia to just a single run. The righthander struck out five batters...
...plant-closing provision. Mike Dukakis, with his promotion of high-tech growth and labor management cooperation, has had some trouble convincing blue-collar voters that he can represent their interests. His declaration of support for the plant closing measure should go far in reasserting the Democrats' former hold on the blue-collar vote. Dukakis' support of the plant closing measure would serve notice that he represents the party of compassion, and Bush the party of privilege...
...case with Ronald Webeck, 40, of St. Petersburg, who found "positive thinking" last year, nearly two years after he was discovered to have AIDS. He marvels that he is still alive while more than 50 of his acquaintances have succumbed to the disease. Although he tires too easily to hold a job, he is able to work with an AIDS support group, trying to "give hope to people to hang on." His survival, he says, is due to "my determination. I refuse to give...
Gore's latest failure proved terminal: he suspended campaigning Thursday, though he will attempt to hold his delegates together by remaining a nominal candidate. Gore was a star of Super Tuesday just six weeks earlier, but his erratic performance since then seemed to eliminate him even from the roster of vice-presidential prospects...
...presidency. During a debate before the New Hampshire primary, Dukakis the righteous reformer vowed that the first bill he would send to Congress would be one limiting the influence of political-action committees. Even more characteristic is the carrot that Dukakis dangled before Iowa voters: a promise to hold the first in a series of regional economic-development conferences in Davenport in February...