Word: nils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talents, large or nil, agreed to nurse...
...roughly equal strength, the potential for a wild and politically bloody convention is great. A divisive floor fight for the nomination would be a disaster for the Democrats and would undoubtedly produce a nominee so wounded by his own party that chances for victory in November would be nil. If the two men seem to be dendlocked in June, the best solution would be the selection of a compromise candidate. Perhaps someone who has already dropped out of the race, or a name that has only briefly been mentioned thus far (Dale Bumpers, Jim Wright, or Mario Cuomo). Anyone nominated...
Guerrero's chances of winning an outright majority are virtually nil. In the 1982 Constituent Assembly elections, the P.C.N. took only 18.6% of the vote, vs. 40.7% for the Christian Democrats and 29.1 % for ARENA. But it seems unlikely that D'Aubuisson or Duarte will be capable of winning a majority either, which means that complex political maneuvering may be involved in choosing the new chief of state. The wheeling and dealing have already begun. Two conservative splinter parties announced last week that they had held talks on joining ranks with ARENA, and Guerrero has been carrying...
...bringing all three forums to a standstill, the Soviet Union evidently hoped to pressure the U.S. and its NATO allies into reversing the deployment of new cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. The odds of Soviet success in that objective are just about nil, since NATO is standing firm in insisting that the Soviets are the ones who must change their INF posture. Nonetheless, at a meeting in Moscow last week with Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Väyrynen, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko once again echoed the refrain that the aim of U.S. military policy...
...Commission chaired by Edmund Muskie, a liberal with a strong reputation for integrity--examines formal complaints that the company is not adhering to World Health Organization (WHO) codes, hears arguments from both sides, and issues formal decisions. The Commission's power to enforce its judgments is nil. It relies solely on company cooperation and its to pressure the company through publicity...