Word: spoiler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate who received the most votes would be the President. If no one got more than 40%-a situation that has happened only once in U.S. history*-there would be a runoff between the two who ranked highest. Majority will would always prevail, and a Wallace-like spoiler could no longer threaten to disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple. As the measure (which, if approved, would still have to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures) passes to the Senate floor, opponents are arguing that it might well...
Harvard's tennis team indicated that it might have to be accorded something more than a spoiler's role in this spring's EITA race by methodically demolishing a better-than-average Navy squad, 9-0, at Cambridge Saturday afternoon...
...expected. Harvard's rebuilding tennis team fared poorly during its Southern trip, losing four of five matches, but coach Jack Barnaby feels that the Crimson jelled well enough to establish itself as a "formidable spoiler" in the EITA race this spring, which begins with a home contest this weekend against Navy...
...effective if sometimes demagogic campaigner, and a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960, Yorty is not expected to win the June primary. But he has a good chance to divide the party and diminish its already slim hopes. That spoiler role is his real goal, say his critics. Though Reagan has scarcely fulfilled, among other promises, his 1966 pledge to put down campus unrest, he has proved a masterly political animal. A recent state poll shows that 75% of the state's voters think that he has done a "good" or "fair...
...Party Spoiler. A stubborn, honest and puritanically forthright man, Martin liked to explain that the Reserve Board's unpopular actions arose out of its necessary role of "leaning against the wind." He said: "I'm the fellow who takes away the punch bowl just when the party is getting good." (Martin is a teetotaler.) Above all, he defended the integrity of the U.S. dollar at home and abroad, though he and the board lacked the power to do the job effectively alone. Despite today's inflation, he succeeded well enough so that the dollar has lost less...