Word: ran
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Character has lost its attraction as an issue now that it no longer means sex. Once the press and the candidates realized that harping on sexual indiscretions ran the risk of Mutual Assured Destruction, the character issue was reduced to the impossible--and tedious--task of weighing one man's soul against another's. There was a brief respite provided by Dick Morris, whose idea of triangulating involved toes. But otherwise, nothing. Sex may finally be out until someone can show a connection between a model sex life--Nixon, Carter--and a successful presidency...
...history, a race fully twice as expensive, if only half as suspenseful, as the last one. There seemed to be no rules, no limits, no penalties: no handshake or photograph that was not auctioned off to a lobbyist or a casino owner. One day last week, two Democratic lobbyists ran into each other near the FBI Building. One, who works for a major oil corporation, said in exasperation, "We've given $100,000 a year to the Democratic Party for a long time. We used to be a big player. But now we don't exist...
...airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
...writing in response to an article The Crimson ran last week concerning public service at Harvard ("Students Question Services Impact," News, October 28, 1996). I feel it is very unfair and inaccurate to take the opinion of one PBHA volunteer and apply it to the entire core of public service volunteers at Harvard. Certainly, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but to generalize about the sentiments of an entire organization that encompasses over a thousand people is absolutely ludicrous...
Hyman endorsed Rawlins and O'Mary late last night. Rawlins ran on a ticket with Hyman in the firstever popular elections held last spring...