Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That did not end the marathon dispute over the first comprehensive reform of the nation's immigration laws since 1952. Differences between the House bill and one that the Senate passed overwhelmingly in May 1983 must be reconciled by a conference committee that is supposed to meet this week. Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a chief sponsor of the bill, has warned that he cannot accept one House amendment. Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, the other major architect, doubts that the differences can be resolved before Congress begins its three-week summer recess Friday...
...Olympics, marathon runners end the 26.2-mile race with a dramatic finishing kick into a roaring stadium...
...interminable race for the Democratic nomination wound down last week like a 1920s dance marathon. Dazed by months of gladhanding and posturing, the candidates stumbled around in circles. Only the prize sustained them: 486 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday III, the last leg on the long trail to the Democratic nomination...
...delicious and malevolent self-inflicted agonies you describe in "The Appeal of Ordeal" [ESSAY, May 14], only marathon dancing is wholly understandable. It was done during the Depression in order to have a place to eat and sleep, standing...
...interrupts another angry man "I 'm pretty sure that it's the final mile of the marathon and the events of the decathlon...