Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sears, as well as for the other candidates, express confidence in getting the nomination, but all are more shaky when discussing the election. Most agree that this time around the Republicans chances hang more on the outcome of the Democratic fight than on anything they can do. Even a lightweight contender could challenge the Democrats if King. Dukakis and O'Neill bloody each other enough before the primary. And that observers say, is not unlikely
...road O'Neill has taken since then has surprised few people, but his career has undergone heavily critical reappraisal. The son of one of the nation's most successful old-style liberal politicians, he has been saddled with the image of a lightweight riding on a powerful family name. His greatest task, some have said, is to provide voters with a concrete reason for supporting him, besides the fact that he wants...
...Market gets reflects a problem with O'Neill's campaign that cuts deeper than the discouraging numbers; the bash has been billed as featuring Tommy's dad, Speaker of the U.S. House. More than King of Dukakis, Tommy O'Neill's main adversary is his image as a political lightweight. To many observers, his election and re-election to the state's second highest office stemmed more from his name than his record. And even his supporters admit it was no coincidence that his major accomplishment in office--channeling federal funds to Massachusetts--came just when his father assumed congressional...
...average" and yearned to be popular. Though he became editor of the Crimson, he could not make the freshman football team, and he was crushed at failing to get into Harvard's fanciest club, the Porcellian. Girls who encountered him at debutante dances considered him a lightweight and nicknamed him Feather Duster. His newly widowed mother bought a house in Boston to be near...
Home educated in an Alaskan village of 11 people, Helmericks came to Harvard after high school at a Fairbanks, Alaska, boarding school. He now divides his time between rowing lightweight crew and writing his Geology thesis...