Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West Virginia Governor-elect Cecil Underwood took an awful long time to do it. Under an old West Virginia law, Underwood could not run for a second term at the end of his first. That was in 1961. Three times since then, he has tried to regain his seat; three times he failed. His patience paid off Tuesday on his 74th birthday as the Republican won the sentimental votes of thousands of Democrats to edge state senator Charlotte Pritt, an honest-to-goodness coal miner's daughter. When inaugurated next year, Underwood will hold the distinction of becoming both...
...fiction. It is an excuse to justify what he has done," Murphy said. "Mental illness was not in the driver's seat...
This year's race for the United States Senate seat from Massachusetts, one of the most prominent and hotly contested in the nation, features two intelligent and talented public officials. Our support for each candidate in past elections makes the choice between them a close call. Even as we regret siding against a Harvard alum, let alone at the hands of an Eli, we endorse the reelection of John F. Kerry to the U.S. Senate...
...freshman Ed Bryant lives up to his reputation as a strict conservative: he sponsored a bill that would have forced emergency-room doctors to turn in adult illegal immigrants who get compensation from the public purse. By his own admission, however, most of his time and his Judiciary Committee seat have been devoted to clearing the way for the Houston Oilers' proposed move to Nashville...
...Junior" is bidding to take the seat left open by his father, who is retiring this year. But he wants to pick up with a difference in image: Ford Sr. was indicted in 1987 on charges of bank, mail and tax fraud, though he was later acquitted. Ford Jr. defends the earned-income tax credit, abortion rights, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental regulation and gun control, and aims to put a fresh face on his father's political legacy...