Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more entitled to celebrate. For nearly five years the boyish but driven president of NBC Entertainment has been trying to write a happy ending for one of the longest-running sob stories in TV history. Season in, season out, NBC rethought its strategy, retooled its schedule, introduced a slew of new shows-and wound up, as usual, deep in the ratings cellar. Asked early this fall if he had anything else to throw in if his new schedule fizzled, Tartikoff replied, "My resignation...
...there's a whole slew of weak Democrats drowning in strong Republican districts: New York's Stanley Lundine is said by many to be gone, and California Dem Jerry Patterson is having a hard time keeping his head above water. To this list add James McClure Clark, Don Albosta, Bob Carr, Tim Penny and Joe Minish. All of these Democrats are ideologically off base in their respective districts...
Lord Porchester, the Queen's racing manager, says that she is "an absolutely first-rate judge of horseflesh." Among the stallions trotted out for her at Spendthrift were two Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. At Claiborne Farm she met the third living Triple Crown horse, Secretariat, before a groom brought out a retired stud at the Queen's request: the legendary Round Table, who was born to a horse bred at the royals' farm, Sandringham Stud...
Gone were a slew of athletes many considered the finest in Harvard history and with them, the most Ivy championships ever won by one school in one year...
...astonishing knack for handling journalistic inquisitors. The reporters in New York were as jumpy and eager as hounds. For 18 hours they had been able to examine the financial records of Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro, a real estate executive. The candidate was open to a slew of questions about her compliance with congressional finance rules. In 1978, during her first run for Congress, Ferraro's husband and children had loaned her $134,000; federal election law permits only $1,000 from each family member...