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Word: rout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willingness to shoulder the party's disgrace did not disguise it. If Japanese analysts could not agree last week on the potential consequences of the voter backlash, they did concur on the causes of the L.D.P. rout. The vote amounted to a referendum on the party's arrogant and scandal-tainted performance in recent months. The downslide began with a bribery and influence-peddling scandal that forced the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan A Mountain Moves | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson broke a three-game losing streak with excellent pitching and a nine-run seventh-inning eruption to rout Brandeis, 13-4, in Waltham...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: Batsmen Batter Brandeis | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

...rout continued--sophomore Jamie Henikoff also won her match in straight sets...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Vanquish Penn, 8-1 | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

Harvard ended its round-robin action with its second 12-2 rout over Alfred State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perfect Pitching Paces Batswomen Over Break | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

Harvard scrimmaged Trenton Wednesday, and practiced its shooting in a 17-3 rout...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: W. Lacrosse | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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