Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton, Illinois has always been the crucial contest. He watched another Southerner do well on Super Tuesday four years ago, only to fail when the race turned north to the Rust Belt. "Al Gore didn't realize that he had to show immediate foot in the North to avoid being tagged a regional candidate," Clinton said several months ago. "I'll do well on Super Tuesday too, but Illinois is basically the ball game. If I score there, I've got the momentum to roll in the other big Northern states. Lose there and, well, let's just...
...favorite. He alone has that magic elixir called money in the bank -- $2 million after New Hampshire with $1 million more in federal matching funds on the way. Small wonder that Clinton fund raiser Bob Farmer proclaims, "This will be all over by Illinois," one of the two big Rust Belt primaries (Michigan is the other) that will be held on March 17. Much of the upcoming political terrain is made to order for Clinton, the lone Southerner in the race and the contender who appears most at ease courting black voters. Between March 3 and Super Tuesday, nine states...
...Albany during the week, tending to New York business as Kerrey tours the country. On weekends, and on a few weeknights as well, the Governor, Elvis-like, is sighted delivering well- crafted speeches in carefully targeted, delegate-rich states like Florida and Texas, and of course throughout the Rust Belt and in California. Cuomo's modified schedule reduces his exposure, thus limiting the chance for a blowup, which is always possible since the testy and easily tried Governor greets most mornings itching for a fight -- and usually gets...
...Considering it was our first time back and we hadn't played for so long, I didn't think we had that much rust," Shyjan said. "We were playing some of the top teams in the country. I thought it was great that we got that...
Dartmouth matches up perfectly against Harvard. The Big Green boasts a solid rust-defense, cemented together by senior linebacker Harry Wright, who virtually silenced Cornell's superstar tail- back John McNiff last week...