Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials said they are still mulling over the evidence before deciding finally whether to contest Thompson's victory. Under state law, Graham has 10 days from Election Day to ask for a recount, and 30 days to mount a legal challenge of results. Currently, the 16,536 city ballots sit in a vault...
...Matthew Reese, a veteran of more than 400 Democratic campaigns since 1966, says he is happy to sit on the sidelines for this one. In Washington, he says, the talk is all of politics and power. In Cambridge, of politics and substance...
Albano labels this simply "more rhetoric," and says Graham "would have never said that to him." He adds, "Saundra Graham and Alvin Thompson do not sit on the same side of the street in this town...
...three miles this morning and did sit-ups so I could have these," says Edward Edelman, 43, a New York financial consultant, as he dips into a bowlful of raspberries crowned with a snowfall of whipped cream at Vico, an uptown Italian trattoria. In San Francisco, Sterrett Brandt, 30, until recently traffic coordinator at U.S. Recycling Industries, says she wouldn't hesitate to order chocolate tortes or cheesecake when treated to a business lunch. "Since I'm not paying, the calories don't really count," she rationalizes. In Chicago, Donna Needy, 41, a casualty-company exec, begins each weekday with...
...victorious candidate is sworn in, his wife dutifully holds the Bible, her gaze uplifted adoringly, and his children, sparkling with intelligence and good health, sit obediently nearby. Or do they? In the midst of this year's no-holds-barred campaign season, families of candidates high and low are beginning to change the old rules by candidly airing their grievances and trying to break out of cardboard caricatures. "They're still reticent," notes Stuart Hart, a psychologist at Purdue University. "But they're also standing up and saying, 'Hey, wait a minute, I've got needs...