Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning the race, Sudduth earned the right to wear the red, white and blue in Olympic competition for the second time. He earned a silver medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Games when he rowed on the U.S. eight which placed second behind the Canadian crew...
...round of balloting on June 5. The party won only 37.5% of the vote, compared with 40.5% for the conservative alliance comprising the neo-Gaullist Rassemblement pour la Republique and the center-right Union pour la Democratie Francaise. The Communists, written off after their 6.8% score in the presidential race, bounced back to 11.3%. At the other extreme, the ultra- right, anti-immigrant National Front slipped from...
...Michael Dukakis, only hours away from the climactic triumph of his primary season, tries to hold a private midnight meeting with Jesse Jackson. His Secret Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...
After losing the final round last week, Jackson praised the nature of Dukakis' surprisingly successful campaign -- but said he would remain in the race and fight for delegates not formally bound to other candidates. That tactic had some precedent, but Jackson's demand for first-refusal rights to the vice-presidential nomination did not. It was a noticeable hardening of his responses on the subject. Earlier in the campaign, he dismissed the second slot as irrelevant. More recently, he argued that his strong showing had earned him "consideration...
...whys have it. Those close to Mario Cuomo say a major reason he did not make the race was his inability to frame a rationale for his candidacy. It all comes back to the old Roger Mudd why-are-you-running question that reduced Ted Kennedy to stutters in 1979. Whatever their faults as campaigners, both Michael Dukakis and George Bush could handle these whys-guy queries. Bush declared himself the designated heir to Reaganism and a man whose resume had earned a final line. For Dukakis, the White House represented a chance to sprinkle Massachusetts Miracle...