Word: roberte
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Another factor working for the Democrats is the stature of its incumbent candidates. Some of the party's best-known leaders are up for re-election, including Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (W.Va.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.). Other Democratic safe bets include Spark M. Matsunaga (Ha.), George Mitchell (Me.), Jim Sasser (Tenn.) and, of course, Lloyd Bentsen...
...races which Democratic challengers should win are in Nebraska and Nevada. Sen. David K. Karnes (R-Neb.) who was appointed to the post following the death of Sen. Edward Zorinski, is trailing popular former Gov. Robert Kerrey by a significant margin. And Sen. Chic Hecht (R-Nev.), who was voted one of the least effective senators by Washingtonian magazine, and was considered a re-election long-shot from the start, will probably fall to Democratic Gov. Dick Bryan in a close race...
With 12 minutes remaining in the Harvard-Princeton men's soccer game last Satuday, Captain Robert Bonnie approached Coach Mike Getman and asked to go back on the field...
WEST VIRGINIA Robert Byrd, 70, will step aside as majority leader but have no trouble retaining his seat...
...does not, experts like Robert Chandross, chief economist at Lloyds Bank in Manhattan, warn that prices could drop below $10 per bbl. and remain at that level for the next six months. That would mean a repeat by next spring of the oil-market collapse of early 1986, when OPEC overproduction sent prices crashing to less than $10 per bbl. While cheap energy helps most Western economies by lowering inflation, petroleum at prices below $10 or $12 per bbl. is a painful prospect for such indebted oil producers as Algeria and Mexico and the weakened U.S. energy belt...