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Contrasting Styles. The election in the tiny (pop. 3 million) southwest Pacific nation was a contest in contrasting political styles. Rowling, a reserved, diminutive former schoolteacher and university lecturer, is most convincing with small groups, and tended at the outset of the campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised...
...Crimson's hopes for an upset were deflated at the outset. After James Kaller had been outpointed in the 18 class, Yasunaga was pinned by his Hofstra opponent, who is ranked third nationally. The matmen were then successively cut down up to the 158 pound slot held down by Corcoran. In a show-stopping clash Corcoran racked up a pin with only two seconds left in the match, while trailing...
...editors--L.H. Butterfield, who edited John Adams's diary and autobiography, Marc Friedlander and Mary-Jo Kline--make it clear from the outset that they want a book that will be read and not studied. They succeed. They select what they consider to be the best of the Adams correspondence and add letters to outsiders, diary entries and autobiographical selections. The result is a smooth reading narrative that carries the reader from the first faint glimmerings of trouble with England into the frantic months of Independence and beyond...
Radcliffe came out roaring at the outset of the game running off ten straight points after an initial Wellesley hoop. A tenacious trapping woman-to-woman defense and a well-coached moving offense caught Wellesley off guard...
Unger promises at the outset to utilize, unlike Marx and Weber, a form of "total" rather than "partial" criticism that will "serve as the key that will allow us to escape from the prison house" of paradoxical liberalism, "whose rooms did not connect and whose passageways led nowhere...