Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamie announced his intention to run long before Tsongas bowed out, and called Richardson's entrance "a little opportunistic." But state Republican officials quietly say they are happy that Richardson is running because of his national reputation that will probably allow him to mount a stronger race against the Democrats...
...vision of Sarajevo as a perennial winter playground, the expressed motive of the Olympic organizers. And as far as the mountains go, the picture is gleaming. But the city, usually deep in snow long before now, is mired in mud. Central Yugoslavia has melted practically into spring. On the Mount Igman plateau, where the cross-country skiers will stride and slide through the forest, their trail is streaked with patches of dire brown. A small battalion of soldiers is scattered in the woods prospecting for snow by the clump, hauling it out in what appear to be orange parachutes, dumping...
...that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went to high school in Mount Vernon, a leafy suburb north of Manhattan, then on to Cornell, where he picked up the nickname Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university's first president). He won $1,000 in scholarships for his freshman year, against an annual tuition of $100. He eventually became president...
Chisholm was known as a strong advocate of minority and women's rights during her seven terms in Congress. In 1972, she became the first Black woman to mount a bid for the presidency...
...Brooklyn College and received a master of arts degree from Columbia University. In 1964, she was first elected to the New York State Assembly, where she served until 1968, when she was elected to Congress. Chisholm retired from Congress in 1982 and is now a political seience professor at Mount Holyoke College...