Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eliminating more intermediate-range missiles than the U.S. and that this is a defeat for the Soviet Union, let them. We do not consider that we have lost anything from the point of view of security. We have no intention of riding side by side, as in a horse race. If we see goodwill on our partner's side, we take this into consideration, but we believe that we are doing a lot, not less than the U.S., to guarantee the success of negotiations...
...first Johnson volume, The Path to Power, was published in 1982 and proved Corcoran wrong. In comprehensive and forceful detail, it followed Johnson from the lonely Texas hill country, out from under the humiliating shadow of his failed father. The book ended with his unexpected defeat in a 1941 race for the U.S. Senate. The Path remained a best seller for three months and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction...
...well, funky. The Arsenio Hall Show, a weeknightly joyride on 167 stations nationwide, is less a talk show than a televised party: hip, hyperkinetic and hot. The host can't sit still, and the crowd can't get enough of him. At any moment, Hall might race into the studio audience in response to a shouting fan, or sidle over to his five-piece house band ("my posse") for some impromptu jamming. Meanwhile, as late-night's first successful black talk host, he has turned his guest couch into TV's liveliest melting pot. Rap groups get as much attention...
...losing his title as late-night king. After soaring during the summer, Hall's ratings have slacked off a bit this fall. (The kids who constitute his main audience, explain show executives, have gone back to school.) Through it all, Tonight's ratings have remained relatively stable. "This race is not a sprint, it's a marathon," notes Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment. "Whatever burns the brightest, fades the fastest...
This year's election marks the first time since 1961 that Independent Councillor Walter J. Sullivan has not met the quota on the first count. Sullivan, almost always the city's top vote-getter, now leads the race for the third seat with approximately 2565 votes...