Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments was surprising, since the vote might well determine whether France would continue on its center-right course or veer?no one could say how far?to the left. The polls still showed the leftist parties leading the governing coalition, 50% to 45%, but under the two-round voting system the final outcome remained unpredictable...
...Ladbrokes, the British bookmakers, on a victory for the present government. The odds: 4 to 5. The left's chances were rated at dead even. The baron explained that he was not counting on any change in voter sentiment. The left would lose, he said, because after the first round of voting, the Communists would refuse to give their support to front-running Socialists in the second round. He was not alone in that opinion. The depressed Paris stock market rose 5.9% over the past two weeks on the strength of similar and perhaps equally wishful thinking...
...used in French schools and a former vice president of the Common Market, Barre was virtually unknown in his own country until President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing named him Premier in August 1976. The roly-poly professor, who describes himself as a "square man in a round body," enjoys the fact that he is not a professional politician. His blunt, straight-talking manner has won him the respect of the public, though his austere economics have drawn criticism from both the left and from Gaullists on the right. Barre's policies, however, have lately begun...
...Crimson matmen were eliminated from the tournament following opening losses. When the first round opponents fell in the quarterfinals, Ray Dominguez, Rick Kief, Ray Cooper, Jim Corcoran, Bill Mulvihill and Tony Cimmarusti became ineligible for the wrestlebacks...
When Harvard goes to Washington, it goes there to win. And on the highly sensitive issue of recombinant DNA research, it certainly won the first round, as the bill regulating DNA research introduced in the House on Tuesday shows...