Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campaign workers with signs compete for street corners. A Honda with a pencil-shaped "Write In Ralph Nader" sign strapped to the roof is parked in front of a meter that reads "Time Expired." On the sidewalk, a local television reporter interviews a silver-haired man, who says into the camera, "Harkin isn't stiff; he seems like a relaxed, regular guy. He betrays a certain barnyard roughness around the edges, I suppose, but he can communicate with the everyday American...
...York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who was the subject of an active though unsolicited write-in compaign, gathered only three percent of the total vote. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader received two percent and actor Tom Laughlin, who starred in the "Billy Jack" movies, non one percent...
Democratic Party Candidate Votes Percentage Delegate s Jerry Brown 12,784 9% 0 Bill Clinton 38,365 26% 9 Mario Cuomo 5,128 3% 0 Tom Harkin 15,569 11% 0 Bob Kerrey 17,085 12% 0 Tom Laughlin 2,069 1% 0 Ralph Nader 2,445 2% 0 Paul Tsongas 50,903 34% 9 Others...
...Lamont or any other library on hand. I can't even afford the luxury of a relaxed afternoon nap--it's hard to sleep comfortably on those benches in Sever. With my body draped in the pages of The Crimson, my face flat against "The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson" and all my personal belongings at my feet, I end up looking like some dispossessed academic bagperson...
...result, some researchers are focusing their attention on the culprit molecules rather than the victims. Atmospheric scientists Richard Turco of UCLA and Ralph Cicerone of U.C. Irvine are exploring the idea of injecting into the stratosphere two chemicals -- propane and ethane -- that would combine with CFCs to produce an extremely weak, and therefore environmentally safe, solution of hydrochloric acid. That strategy would interrupt the CFCs' 100-year destruction cycle, and has the further advantage of requiring only 1,000 jumbo-jet flights over a single, critical 30-day period every year for the next several decades. The products involved...