Word: hunts
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...Senator's negative campaigning seems to be working. While statewide polls showed Hunt leading Helms by 20 percentage points last October, the most recent polls place them in a virtual tie, although a crucial 10% are undecided. The polls also show that 36% of the state's Democrats, who outnumber Republicans 3 to 1, say they may vote for Helms. "Helms caught Hunt off guard," contends University of North Carolina Political Scientist Merle Black. "Hunt needs to confront Helms on these misrepresentations, which are a modern version of the old whisper campaigns...
...campaign trail, Hunt has tried to ignore the Helms attacks and stress his own achievements as Governor. "We will take our lumps right now, lay out our organization and get the campaign going on our terms," explains Hunt Press Aide Stephanie Bass. "If they can talk us into punching the tar baby, they've got us." Hunt has developed a strong supporting machine through a patronage system affecting about 4,800 state jobs and appointments. He describes the race as probably one between "a moderate and a reactionary." The Helms strategy, on the other hand, is to draw...
...rhetoric is proving almost obscenely expensive. Helms raised $4.4 million last year and an additional $2 million in the first quarter of this year, and is expected to spend perhaps $14 million by November. Hunt has taken in just half as much so far and claims that he will spend only about $5 million. Still, that would make it the most expensive Senate race in history...
...equality in society, international affairs." The Journal has begun to show more interest in popular culture: last year Arts Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff won a Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and reviews are the centerpiece of a new daily arts and leisure page. The political writing of Washington Bureau Chief Albert Hunt is elegant and informed, and it inspires the same in his 35-member bureau. The paper opens its Op-Ed columns to liberals and gadflies such as Hodding Carter and Alexander Cockburn. As a result, the Journal has won a following even among its ideological opposites. This month a cover...
...younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with a mouth full of blood." His sister's pathologist became a family friend, and Gallo grew up accompanying him to his lab. In 1965 he joined the NCI and began the hunt for his sister's killer...