Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koch is the elective shoo-in that he appears, however, it is not only because of what people know and see about him, but what they guess about him as well. New Yorkers know that Koch seems a hard-nose. What they guess about him is that he is not the hard-nose he seems, that he is in stead a quite naive man who may have toughened up because of various treacheries and disappointments, but who remains fundamentally naive nonetheless. It is said of Koch that he trusts others too little. It is more likely that he has trusted...
...think anything has changed, except people are paying higher taxes," grouses ex-Mayor Kucinich. Yet most observers rate Voinovich a shoo-in to win a second term this fall...
Giscard's ambitions are no secret in Paris, even if his wife Anne-Aymone has tried to build suspense by telling interviewers that his retirement would give the family more time together. What is new is that the President is no longer considered a shoo-in. The Socialist-Communist Alliance's scorching defeat in the 1978 legislative elections, and the ensuing disarray within France's leftist opposition, had given the impression that Giscard could be re-elected without much effort. As recently as November, polls gave him 59% of the vote in a runoff against Mitterrand...
...floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much opposition they generate. The process has claimed some victims. William Simon thought himself a shoo-in to be Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury. Then, after being subjected to what he calls "an overt hatchet job," including leaks about his unpopularity with some Senate Republicans, Simon withdrew, pleading personal reasons. But he is bitter, and includes "the nosiness and bias" of the press...
...while assuring voters that they are eliminating waste in other areas of the budget. Incumbents also benefit from a paradox: while voters consistently seem to distrust Congress as a whole, they usually admire their own legislators. Thus North Dakota's veteran G.O.P. Congressman Mark Andrews is considered a shoo-in for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Milton Young. Says a disgruntled Democrat: "Andrews and God occupy the same niche here." Of the House incumbents, 51 have no opponent, scores face only token opposition, and 95% are expected to be reelected...