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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates, May 15), where the Yumpie vote is strong, and faces an uphill struggle in Nebraska (24 delegates, May 15), where popular Governor Bob Kerrey is stumping for Hart. (Last week Kerrey's sometime girlfriend, Actress Debra Winger, campaigned with Hart in Ohio.) Hart also has a slight edge in Idaho (18 delegates, May 24) and South Dakota (15 delegates, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snakebit on the Long Trail | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...controversy may have cast a slight shadow over the election outcome, but it did not obscure the achievement of the election. Whatever the Reagan Administration may have spent covertly on campaign activity, the U.S. saw its roughly $7 million investment in the mechanics of the balloting resoundingly vindicated. In contrast to the rhetoric of the campaign, when Duarte supporters called their opponents ARENAZIS and D'Aubuisson campaign workers accused the Christian Democratic leader of being a Communist who would hand the country over to the guerrillas, election day was part festival, part family outing. As street vendors hawked papusas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Voting for Moderation | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

What's changed this time, though, is that Harvard is the slight favorite in The Rematch, whose parallels with a year ago are too strong to ignore...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: University Will Train New Ethics Instructors | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...with the slight distraction presented by the Huskies out of the way, the Crimson immediately turned to the real business at hand--training for next weekend's Eastern Sprints...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Oarsmen Sweep Past Hapless Huskies, Begin to Prepare for Eastern Sprints | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...junior varsity action, the Dartmouth crew used a slight tailwind top soundly beat Radcliffe...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Laxwomen Triumph, Oarswomen Vanquished | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

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