Word: radisson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheerleaders were the main attraction at a Gopher rally before Friday's Minnesota-Maine semifinal. Five hundred Gopher fans jammed the lobby of the Radisson Hotel to chant, "Here we go, Gophers, here we go." Minnesota Assistant Coach Bill Butters addressed the cheering crowd. "Make sure you yell loud because--who are we playing tonight? Oh, Maine. Right. Maine will have lots of support...
...Columbia, S.C. From his 14th-floor room in the Radisson Hotel, Campaign Manager Lee Atwater, wearing a shaggy white sweater, surveys six different newspapers to prepare for his morning staff meeting...
...Columbia. Three brown phones and three white ones are forever ringing in Atwater's room at the Radisson. Scanning the Charlotte Observer, he tells New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, "I want you to come down to Houston. Things start happening in the last ten days." After hanging up, Atwater, in his rat-a-tat South Carolina accent, explains, "We have blended the national campaign with the state campaign here...
...week for chess champions. As Anatoli Karpov was falling a game behind Gary Kasparov in the world chess championship at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, an upset of a different sort was taking place in Denver's Radisson Hotel. The world's top-ranked chess machine, a $14 million Cray X-MP/ 48 supercomputer running a program called Blitz, was about to lose the North American computer-chess championship to Hitech, a rack of custom-made silicon chips attached to a $20,000 Sun minicomputer...
Mondale bowed to overwhelming defeat with dignity and grace. After voting near his home in North Oaks, Minn., he traveled to St. Paul for dinner at the Radisson Plaza Hotel with his campaign staff. Said his press secretary, Maxine Isaacs: "It was not a weepy scene at all, just quiet." The Democratic challenger then secluded himself to write the concession speech he delivered to a sparse crowd of 1,000 at the St. Paul Civic Center. Over some shouts of "No!" Mondale, his face at times mournful but his voice steady, said Reagan "is our President, and we honor...