Word: spoilsport
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...downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last to predict Mondale's landslide, did so 15 minutes after voting began. The early projections were considered spoilsport at best, electoral meddling at worst. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, urged the networks to show more restraint and invited them to testify before his panel this week...
...that her candidacy was likely to draw white votes away from Republican Candidate Bernard Epton and ensure the election of Washington. Last week, with key campaign aides quitting and former Supporter Ted Kennedy stumping for Washington, Byrne, belatedly realizing she could not win, abruptly withdrew from the race. Her spoilsport campaign had gone nowhere...
...Some spoilsport journalists suggested that Columbia was showing all the symptoms of a used car. Not so, replied Houston Flight Director Neil Hutchinson, adding, "If it's acting like a used car, I'd like to own it." In fact, Columbia's glitches, with the exception of the radio breakdown, were all relatively minor, and it was unfortunate that they obscured the mission's true importance. By making a record-breaking third voyage into space, Columbia was providing stunning proof of NASA's basic vision: that the U.S. could build and operate a spacecraft capable...
...school year. With indirect federal subsidies suddenly imperiled, the town cannot decide whether to spend less in the future or tax itself more. "We must face economic realities," intones Budget Basher John Lupton, a silver-haired onetime advertising executive remotely related to Puritan Spoilsport Cotton Mather. But Lupton is having trouble convincing his neighbors that his newly formed antiwaste group, COST (Coalition Opposing Soaring Taxes) is not antieducation...
...apocryphal Mr. Freelob is an archetypal Doobies fan. If he could play a little guitar he could even be a Doobie; even if he couldn't play, some spoilsport critic might suggest, he could still join the band. Paul's personal history is a lot like the band's. The Doobies (the name is San Francisco slang for reefer) started out playing for Hell's Angels and similar roughriding biker types ten years ago, had a couple of random hit singles, endured several massive changes of personnel and finished...