Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activity comes none too soon. A delegation of 15 Democratic Governors pleaded with Mondale to loosen up and try to show the American people what a regular fellow he really is-to "let his hair down," as Maryland Governor Harry Hughes put it. Mondale, hair firmly in place, stiffly replied: "There is no question that a person has to communicate effectively. But this campaign is going to be won on the issues...
...both possibilities. The astronomers then wondered if the threadlike arc might be the tattered remnant of interstellar material that had been sucked into a black hole at the galaxy's center; that notion too was discarded. Explains Frank Kerr, provost of the sciences at the University of Maryland, who has studied the structure of the Milky Way since 1951: "You'd expect a black hole to be pulling in all directions, not in an isolated arc." Kerr and others are now leaning toward the presence of a powerful and mysterious magnetic field as the most plausible cause...
...group B. Canada and Iraq are tied for second place behind Yugoslavia, which beat Cameroon 2-1 last night in Annapolis. After a round robin series, two teams from cash division the two groups splitting their time between Massachusetts and Maryland and two more playing all their games on the west coast will move on to the quarter finals Los Angeles next week...
...June 1984, the idea was gaining serious momentum. At least four Governors and a majority of state Democratic leaders endorsed the idea of a woman Vice President, and so did House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who added a name: Ferraro. Congresswomen Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio also came out for Ferraro. Finally, on July 4, a delegation of 3 women leaders traveled to Mondale's Minnesota headquarters to make their case. The National Women's Political Caucus sent him a final compendium of arguments for a woman...
...Maryland Governor Hughes acknowledges that getting the necessary cooperation from private citizens may also prove to be difficult. Industrial firms and other property owners have traditionally resisted attempts by state or local authorities to tell them how they can use their land. Maryland's watermen have always opposed efforts to make them curb their catches, although a growing number of them now grudgingly concede that more controlled harvesting is necessary...