Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposals from the Communists and a considered and carefully articulated platform. As they acquired respectability in the eyes of the Italian electorate, the PCI seems to have acquired a sense of responsibility. Should they prove unable to fulfill the promises that gained them support, they now have something to lose...
...party was expected to kick off about 5 p.m., but one-half hour and 45 demi-tuna fish sandwiches later, the great trumpeter still hadn't shown up. Pretty soon President Bok began to lose patience with the avant-grade jazz movement...
...purists argue that they might as well nominate their ideological favorite, Reagan. At the Missouri convention, Governor Kit Bond repeatedly cited a poll showing Ford running twelve points better than Reagan in the state; delegates were unmoved because they knew that the same numbers indicated that both men would lose to Carter. What the delegates overlooked is that if a presidential candidate crashes, a lot of his party's candidates for state and local offices get bumped off too−as happened when Barry Goldwater ran in 1964. The whole "electability" issue comes down to which candidate will least...
...build up presidential stature, Reagan is considering buying space for another half-hour TV speech in July, and for policy articles carrying his byline in magazines and newspapers. Win or lose, he is determined to market his ideas. His forces are maneuvering to gain a majority on the Republican Platform Committee. When it meets the week before the August convention, it may well adopt Reagan-sponsored planks opposing abortion, the exchange of ambassadors with China, and further negotiations over the future of the Panama Canal. Even if Ford squeezes out the nomination, he may be stuck with a platform promising...
...trend probably is toward modest reform and refinements, and even more than 31 primaries in 1980. About the only thing that could change that prospect would be if the hero of the 1976 primaries, the triumphant Jimmy Carter, were to lose in a landslide to a candidate emerging from a brokered Republican Convention. Meanwhile, Jimmy, showing more wit than he is sometimes credited with, says of the primary system: "I think it's an absolutely superb process...