Word: hunts
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Faced with the obvious failure of the system in 1980, the Democratic Party in 1982 completely revamped their nominating process. The Hunt Commission, chaired by Governor James B. Hunt of North Carolina, shortened the primary season to three months and restored the automatic right of knowledgeable state, party, and elected officials to be convention delegates in 1984. Such a system promises to be less wearing to candidates and the public alike...
THESE PROVISIONS have drawn overwhelming support from Democrats, but another Hunt innovation has come under increasing attack--the "winner-take-all" system of apportioning delegates, which gives all delegates in an electoral district to the top votegetter rather than awarding them proportionately to several candidates. The Rev. Jesse Jackson lambasts the rule as discriminating against minority voters--but what he fails to acknowledge is that studies show the winner-take-all provisions will also help his candidacy by awarding him all delegates in the nation's many districts which are predominantly minority. In fact, the Hunt Commission, which included several...
...away from a wild-card candidate," as Jackson complains. The party adopted this conservative stance for a reason--their highest priority, as the race heats up, is to select a candidate who has enough broad political support to challenge the Republican incumbent with some hope of success. The Hunt Commission rules, in the end, may make the Democratic Convention less open to the views of party extremes--but they will also produce a candidate and an organization with the best chance of ousting Ronald Reagan from the Rose Garden. And that, in the year 1984, is a goal that most...
...Grenada, the troops hunt snipers-and try the beach...
...first participatory computer tale, Adventure, was created in the mid-1970s by computer researchers in Cambridge and Stanford. It involved a treasure hunt through a labyrinth of caves and dungeons and soon attracted a cult following. Miniature versions that ran on microcomputers were available in the late 1970s...