Word: longshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settled back to between 7 and 10 points, about the margin before the debate. This late in the game, that is a daunting but not quite hopeless deficit. Reasonably objective observers, some of them Republican, reached the same conclusion: Dukakis can still come back, and he even has a longshot chance...
...campaign will be a longshot effort by a candidate who was too lazy to seek the help of her constituency. Now, Graham's campaign has begun to assemble a paid staff and hopes to raise $1000 per day to help win back her disaffected constituency...
...late October. "We're not disclosing or discussing or even deciding anything until the campaign gets well underway because issues are very important to us, like taxes, like defense, things like that. We want to see both candidates' positions...We're not on either side yet, not by a longshot...
...longshot U.S. bobsled team looks for its first medal since 1956. -- The U.S.S.R-Czech face-off could ultimately determine the gold. -- Freestyle skiers demonstrate their heels-over-head, heart-stopping acrobatics. -- If the U.S. hockey team is still in contention, this could decide whether it makes...
Nachmanoff said he knew that the fall concert was a longshot because of the popularity Ladysmith had gained from touring with Paul Simon during his "Graceland" tour. He also said their bid was more risky because it was placed only two weeks shy of the concert date...