Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DESCRIPTION: Population over 65 by age group, life expectancy by sex and race, spending on pensions and health care as percentage of GNP, 1950 and 1985, with projection for 2020; color illustration: man sitting in rocking chair and man running...
...with 38% of the Republican vote, he suddenly had the aura of a champion. "We're winning!" he exulted as he greeted a supporter in Nashua. His rhetoric was sharper, his jokes funnier, his rapport with voters seemed warmer. For Dole and his chief opponents in the Republican presidential race, the Iowa results promised to have earth-shaking ramifications...
...expected, the chorus of lesser G.O.P. candidates began making their exits. Alexander Haig (0% in Iowa, last place) quit the race last Friday with a parting shot at Bush -- and, indirectly, at the Reagan inner circle that had ousted him as Secretary of State. "From my point of view," said Haig, "Bob Dole is head and shoulders above George Bush as a potential President." Pete du Pont (7%, fifth place) will soon be heading back to Delaware's chateau country. Jack Kemp (11%, fourth place) had counted on outflanking Bush and Dole on the right as the true-blue conservative...
Struggling to keep his candidacy viable, Bush badly needed a win in New Hampshire. Two weeks ago polls showed him leading Dole by 20 points in the state. Late last week most surveys found the race too close to call. Dole was poised to upset a rival whose nomination had been portrayed as inevitable...
...Chirac. More important, Barre consistently scores higher than Chirac against Mitterrand alone (though he still comes in second), supporting the former Premier's oft-voiced claim that he offers the center-right its best chance of winning the climactic second round. Still, if Mitterrand enters the race, the La Fontaine fable will have to be rewritten. How would a tortoise and a hare fare against...