Word: shooed
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Though there are twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans in the state, Jay Rockefeller is far from being a shoo-in. In fact, his gutsy but politically risky call for an end to strip mining in the state "completely and forever" has turned his race against the folksy, foxy Republican incumbent, Arch A. Moore Jr., 49, into one of the nation's tightest and most exciting state-level battles. To many voters, Rockefeller's stand on strip mining, a $200 million industry employing many of the state's 44,000 miners, is somewhat like proposing...
...been able to convey that." There is perhaps one consolation in all of the Muskie miscalculations so far. If the voters are as unpredictable as the early primaries indicate, similar troubles could lie ahead for the other candidates. Muskie may be no more finished now than he was a shoo-in in January...
Indiana, which had to settle for a surprisingly close 390-371 win over Southern Cal. set four new American records in a meet that saw records fall in 10 out of 16 events. The Hoosiers, everybody's pre-meet shoo-in for the title, had trailed the Trojans 333-321 at one point on the final evening. but as a result of a 25-0 bulge over Southern Cal in the dives. it was able to take the title once again...
...week's end, there was even talk that they could go all the way against Kareem Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcindor) and the vaunted Milwaukee Bucks, the overwhelming preseason favorites to win their second straight N.B.A. title. If conditioning alone determined the winner, the Lakers would be shoo-ins. Last week, when Laker Owner Jack Kent Cooke jubilantly broke out the champagne to celebrate the team's record-breaking victory, most of the players drank their toasts in Gatorade...
...about Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist (TIME, Nov. 1), the two Supreme Court nominees who were being jointly considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bayh, veteran of the Haynsworth and Carswell wars, and the other liberals sought to separate the nominations because Powell was clearly a shoo-in, while Rehnquist was considered somewhat vulnerable. Nixon loyalists on the committee parried the maneuver. After five days of hearings and 827 pages of testimony, they arranged under the rules to have Powell's nomination also put off for one week. Then the deliberations will pick up where they...