Word: pre
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their relative accuracy, polls fluctuate so sharply that since last August, every major candidate has at one time or another emerged as the people's presidential choice. The reason is clear: during pre-election months, the volatile voters' sentiments seesaw along with news events and the candidates' pronouncements-which is what campaigns are all about. Party loyalties are also weaker in May than in November. One consequence is that extremist, third-party candidates often run stronger in polls and primaries than in national elections-as may well be the case in 1968 with George Wallace...
What most baffles pollsters is the great block of "undecided" voters who swing most elections. In 1952, Gallup's last pre-election poll turned up 13% undecided. On the basis of past voting patterns, he "allocated" the undecideds more than 2 to 1 for the Democrats, which put the Eisenhower-Stevenson election into fifty-fifty country. Had Gallup instead discarded the undecideds and prorated the rest of the vote, his poll would have shown Ike over Adlai by 54% to 46%-Eisenhower won the actual election with 55% of the vote...
...proportion of black members will match the island's Negro majority (63%). Without any other strong issue, the opposition Progressive Labor Party resorted to racism, campaigning on a platform of independence from white Britain, limits on white immigration, and fiery attacks on the white United Bermudians. Last month, pre-election tensions and some bitter P.L.P. speeches had set off an ugly race riot in downtown Hamilton. It caused $1,000,000 in damage and forced the British Governor, Lord Martonmere, to impose a curfew and declare a state of emergency. That, clearly, was not the image most Bermudians...
...stopped the synthesis of all RNA by treating the cells with the specific antibiotic Actinomycin D, which is, incidentally, used to stop the growth of cancer cells. From then on, all protein synthesis depended on pre-existing messengers. He detected new protein molecules by exposing the cells to radioactive amino acids, which are incorporated into any protein the cell synthesizes. Kafatos has made thin sections of the cell and covered them with a thin photographic film. The radioactivity behaves like light and activated the film. His process is called autoradiography. He could then develop the film, count the activated silver...
...needed four operations to correct what trainer Jack Fadden termed "one of the worst breaks I've ever seen." The surgery weakened his leg, however, and as a result, he suffered an ulceration in pre-season practice as a sophomore. He was forced to sit out the season...