Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth, however, ran away with the championship by dominating nearly every event. For example, five of the eight finalists in the discus wore the colors of the Big Green...
Harvard achieved several personal bests. Brian Cann broke his personal record by 23 seconds in the 5000 meters, and Jon Brussenski threw a personal best in the shot. The 400-meter relay ran its best time at 43.17 seconds, and the mile relay pulled off a personal record...
...donations to PTL, which ran as high as $45 million in 1984, will no longer be tax deductible for the givers. That could make it impossible for the bankrupt organization to raise funds to pay off some $72 million that is owed to creditors. Beyond that, the IRS had earlier claimed that PTL owed $55 million in back taxes. Can PTL survive? Said U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Rufus Reynolds: "There's no chance whatsoever...
Overshadowing everything was Gore's inability to develop a consistent message or convey a clear sense of who he is. First he ran as Sam Nunn, differentiating himself from the Democratic pack on defense and foreign policy by speaking loudly about carrying a big stick. Then he ran as Richard Gephardt, picking up the hot populist rhetoric of the fading Missouri Congressman. After that came a Gary Hart phase, as Gore briefly cast himself as the candidate of the future against Dukakis' politics of the past. Finally, in New York, Gore ran at times as virtually a Likud Party candidate...
Dukakis met Sasso a few days after the 1978 loss, keeping a promise he had made to assist a referendum drive that Sasso managed. Sasso, impressed that Dukakis had kept his word despite the crushing defeat, offered to help Dukakis if he ever ran for office again...