Word: round
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtraction will tell you that Hernandez is still pulling in about $1.8 million-a-year. Not bad for a would-be felon. It sure beats a prison softball game in which you solidly slap an extra-base hit up left-center field only to discover that you can't round first base because both of your ankles are shackled...
...tense days after his crushing defeat in the Iowa caucuses, George Bush gazed deep into the black hole of defeat. The bounce from Iowa allowed Bob Dole to overcome a 20-point deficit in the New Hampshire polls; he seemed poised to knock Bush out in only the first round of the primary season. But during the final weekend before the New Hampshire vote, Bush's workers launched a brilliant offensive that rescued their man's candidacy. "I feel that I have a lot in common with Mark Twain," said Bush, who appeared more relieved than excited after beating Dole...
...here he is, flying back to the Middle East this week to launch a new round of peace talks on behalf of a President with less than a year left in power. Shultz's mission is prompted less by dreams of an eleventh-hour diplomatic triumph than by a desperate need to halt the bloody cycle of Palestinian riots and Israeli reprisals that erupted last December in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...fate of another voyage, Shultz's latest round of peace negotiations, remained almost as problematic. Though it has always been taken for granted that the U.S. would participate in the Arab-Israeli peace process when it resumed, Washington has spent years largely on the sidelines and will be playing catch-up ball for a time. As Shultz last week set out for Moscow, where he was to meet with Soviet officials before moving on to the Middle East, the Secretary professed to be unperturbed by Shamir's lack of enthusiasm or any other unfavorable Middle East portent. Said Shultz...
...favorable publicity for winning New Hampshire, his lead over Dole among likely Republican voters shrank from 25 points in January to 18 points last week. Dole, however, still faces serious obstacles. Bush's advantage over Dole is greatest in the South (53% vs. 23%), where the next major round will be fought...