Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being underestimated by his political opponents. His wife once described him as a "shy, skinny intellectual with little public-speaking ability." Yet he pushed himself through successful campaigns for student president of Notre Dame, attorney general and Governor of Arizona and now, at age 49, into the biggest race...
...reappearance has eclipsed the rest of the Democratic field just as it came Babbitt's turn to capture 15 minutes of fame. But despite being stuck at near asterisk levels in the polls, Babbitt could in the end be helped by Hart's claim to have re-entered the race because the other candidates were avoiding substantive issues. Babbitt, with his rumble-voice lectures about the need to raise taxes and restrain entitlements, has long staked his claim as the brave knight of substance. Relentlessly propounding specific proposals and coherent themes, Babbitt offers as many new and bold ideas...
...world at large, Gorbachev has helped nudge his country and Ronald Reagan's off the path to nuclear destruction. True, the treaty scrapping intermediate-range missiles that was signed at the Washington summit is only a small diminution of the arms race. But it is a beginning, made possible in part by Gorbachev's acceptance of verification procedures that no previous Soviet leader would countenance. The treaty just might lead to a more significant reduction in long-range nuclear weapons this year...
...Gray Lobby packs political punch. -- A New York City jury seeks balance in a race case. -- Bruce Babbitt can' t afford timid ideas...
Confounding predictions of a neck- and- neck race, the ruling party candidate handily wins a five- year presidential term amid charges of fraud. -- Facing the worst riots in 20 years, the Israeli military comes down hard on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza. -- Reagan' s quest to secure new aid for the contras gets an inadvertent boost from Nicaragua' s Ortega brothers...