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Gregory Nedham, a 44-year-old unemployed Maine native and Cuomo supporter, said the makeshift campaign hopes to use New Hampshire as a springboard to other states in the region...
Unfortunately, if Magic continues this basketball fantasy, teenagers are probably going to forget that he ever contracted the disease. The possible springboard to battle the spread of AIDS will be lost...
Harvard needs to use this game as a springboard for upcoming conference games...
...contender for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination, may have some unlikely company. Associates of JERRY BROWN say the former California Governor yearns for elective office and is nursing a slim hope that his state's anticlimactic June primary could be advanced to March, when it would be a better springboard. Still more improbable is the gathering of support for consumer gadfly RALPH NADER. "I'm a citizen, not a politician," protests the lonely crusader. But he has yet to disavow his followers' efforts to get his name on the Democratic slate...
...century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner used the 1890 headcount as a springboard for his provocative "frontier thesis," which argued that America's distinctive culture was the result of its pioneering history. The 1980 Census chronicled the "rural renaissance" of the 1970s, when city dwellers headed for the countryside by the tens of thousands. During the following decade, America did exactly the opposite. Preliminary figures from the 1990 Census -- the final tallies won't be available until after July 15 -- depict a nation that has been growing more rapidly and in more complex patterns than ever before. And with the large...