Word: patchworked
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Listening to the uniformly cheery postelection analyses, it was possible to forget that there were losers as well as winners. Everybody seemed able to find hopeful political omens in the patchwork of results. "Tuesday's election," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt, "brought good news for the national Democratic Party." Oh yeah? Declared Frank Fahrenkopf, Manatt's G.O.P. counterpart: "The election provided good news to the Republican Party and President Reagan...
...problem at fullback combined with the one game loss of halfback Mark Vignali left Harvard with a patchwork backfield to start the Dartmouth game...
...Right to Life movement as it is now known did not emerge until the Church effort fused with other conservative movements into the political patchwork of the New Right. Buoyed by the business dollars flowing into the New Right's free-market, less-government platform, the anti-abortion movement began to rack up political victories. Right to Life political action committees began to target key Congressional races--the same contests singled out by Republican, business and fundamentalist groups for support. Coordinated or not, the combined forces of these endorsements did contribute to some upsets...
...image began to fray in 1979. Newly elected Mayor Jane Byrne reported that her predecessors had used creative accounting in order to make the city's bottom line look better than it actually was. But then Byrne, who was facing a bitter re-election battle, played a similar patchwork game with her 1983 budget...
...going back to Massasoit and the Pilgrims. The Indian chief surely wondered who were these guys in their buckled shoes and pale skins. The wood-stove installer emerging from the package store with a six-pack may also wonder who are these characters in their button-down shirts and patchwork shorts, and what are they doing with the Economist instead of Dirt Rider?ln fact, what the hell are they doing here...