Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-way race for New York's Democratic Senate nomination poses a different challenge: Which of two strong female candidates should women support? Both Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale's vice-presidential running mate in 1984, and New York City comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman are veteran politicians who need no introduction to voters. Yet their rivalry has stirred deep divisions among progressive women who seemingly cannot stomach the thought of two women competing for the same office. Holtzman finds the quandary absurd, particularly since she and Ferraro stand far apart on certain issues. Ferraro, for example, backs the death penalty, while Holtzman...
...public last fall with stipulations of good health. "There was never a recurrence," he said, "in our minds." Maybe not, but coming from Tsongas, who sold himself as a straight-talking pol, the reversal will make it easier for Bill Clinton to pass him over as a running mate. Now there are doubts about Tsongas' credibility -- along with his health...
...reason for Jerry Brown's poor showing in the New York primary was his declared wish to nominate Jesse Jackson as his running mate. This was apparently a crucial factor in the choice of an enormous majority of Jewish voters--90 percent--to vote against...
...Luther King, a leader in the Democratic Party, a man who has worked for years toward the goal of empowering and reintegrating poor people into our political and social systems. But he was so hated that even the suggestion by Brown that he would choose Jackson as his running mate was enough to rule out any consideration of the rest of Brown's message...
...something, of incest, say, or child abuse, or another shameful secret. This is the Exemplary Ordeal. Celebrity Hits Bottom (descent into underworld). Then stumbles halfway up, to Betty Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated on the cover of PEOPLE: Drew Barrymore, Richard Pryor, Kitty Dukakis, Roseanne Arnold, all the newly clear-eyed. After the exorcism of devils, resurrection and hugs. "I've got my life...