Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never ones to do things the easy way when difficult or dramatic means are available, the New York Yankees completed their season of miracle comebacks with a record-setting World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees became the first team to stake their opponents to a two-game lead and then sweep four straight games...
These concerns have been reverberating throughout the nation in the closing weeks of the 1978 election campaign. As always, the contest is a patchwork of local conflicts. All 435 House seats are at stake, along with 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships and most state and local offices. Nobody expects any radical changes in party strengths: the Democrats will probably, retain their 61-vote margin in the Senate and lose only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues...
...JERSEY. The governorship is not at stake, but taxes provide the key issue in a zestful senatorial race. Conservative Republican Jeff Bell scored an upset primary victory over incumbent Senator Clifford Case by calling for a steep ; federal income tax cut along with sizable reductions in federal spending...
...expert Norwegian seal hunters to and fro between half a dozen uninhabited islands. Snapping at their heels was the 500-ton trawler Rainbow Warrior, crewed by 14 militant ecologists. Bringing up the rear were three boatloads of eager journalists, with reinforcements overhead in helicopters and light aircraft. At stake in the curious nautical exercise were the lives of some 6,000 generally inoffensive members of the species Halichoerus grypus, commonly known as the gray seal...
What is really at stake for Thurmond and Helms--and Massachusett's Ed King for that matter--is the preservation of their charade. Their future, and the future of the right-wing boom as a whole, depends on the knack of these politicians for plugging into the money and power of corporate America while continuing to sound the horn of the little man fighting high taxes and big government...