Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demographic groups. In the last presidential election, voters in union households tilted only slightly toward the Democratic ticket, 53% to 47%. This year they went 59% for Dukakis. Independents leaned heavily toward Bush, 58% to 42%, but last time Reagan captured 68% of them. Reagan in 1984 seemed to lock up the political future for his party by corralling a solid 59% of voters between 18 and 24 years old. This week Dukakis carried that youngest set, 51% to 49%. The next age group, those between 25 and 34, went for Bush by a margin of 4 points...
Other families don't plan to waste a good opportunity to lock antlers. "We enjoy teasing each other," said Sarah E. Mitchell '91, whose father Douglass attended college in New Haven. Mr. Mitchell plans to watch the Game on TV at the Harvard/Yale Club in the Nashville, Tenn., the family's hometown. "It's a pretty friendly rivalry." Sarah Mitchell said...
Democratic moderates counter that the voters have resoundingly rejected "traditional" liberalism and that the party must nominate a candidate acceptable to Southern conservatives if they ever hope to break the Republican lock on the electoral college...
...gradually acclimate prisoners near the end of their sentences to living outside the walls, Massachusetts granted weekend leaves to convicts whom judges had condemned to remain behind bars until they died. Horton is precisely the sort of criminal that people have in mind when they say someone should lock him up and throw away...
WITHIN a month, the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party will begin. The Rev. Jesse Jackson will try to get his point man, Washington, D.C. lawyer Ron Brown elected to the chair of the the Democratic National Committee. Conservative Democrats, lamenting the Republican electoral lock on the South, will fight for a more moderate alternative. The result of this election will be a key indication of how the Democratic Party's future will be charted over the next four years...