Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faced up to the difficult task of telling an aging colleague that she was no longer capable of handling a high state office? Those clashing views of Democratic Governor James Blanchard have bedeviled Michigan voters ever since he dropped Lieutenant Governor Martha Griffiths, 78, as his re-election running mate...
...term Congresswoman who is widely revered by state Democrats, is not shy about expressing her opinion. "I elected him," she says of Blanchard, who talked her into joining him on the ticket in his tight 1982 race. When rumors arose last spring that Blanchard might choose a new running mate in seeking a third four-year term this year, she snapped, "He should be taken immediately to a psychiatrist." And as Blanchard spread his hopeful view that Griffiths might quietly withdraw, she called a press conference to proclaim that she was "available" to run again. Finally, following his announcement that...
...Africa. Artists' renderings of pitched battles in which a triceratops tries to gore a tyrannosaurus in the belly are misleading. Triceratops was more likely to use its horns as a modern deer uses its antlers, not mainly for battle but to establish dominance in the herd and attract a mate...
...points. In April Chiles defused a crisis by dealing openly with a disclosure that he had taken the common antidepressant drug Prozac for four months to combat moods he called the "blacks." But last week Chiles confirmed that he has resumed taking the drug, leading Nelson's running mate for lieutenant governor to suggest publicly that Chiles might be a "suicide" risk as Governor...
Maryland's Republican gubernatorial candidate has redefined the term running mate: he proposes his wife Lois for lieutenant governor. He calls her a "very substantive person." She says, "For so many years women have been behind their men. It's time that they be beside them...