Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season projections. Eleven of the 22 first-stringers were starting for the first time. To compensate for the lack of experience, Holtz relentlessly drilled his specialty squads and relied on raw speed. In the season opener, the Irish edged out tenth-ranked University of Michigan 19-17 on the strength of four field goals by diminutive Reggie Ho, a former soccer player from Hawaii...
...should not have lost this election," insists Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, one of the party's leading populists. "By God, it's awful we could not beat George Bush and Dan Quayle. They were perfect for us." This widespread view stems directly from the party's consistent strength at all other levels of government. As political scientist Nelson Polsby puts it, "The only thing wrong with the Democratic Party is that they can't elect a President. Everything else they're doing is right. The Senate, the House, party ID -- they're all fine...
...element of Bush's victory was its geographic sweep. To his solid base in the South, he added much of the Middle West, parts of the Northeast, the Mountain States and California. Though the G.O.P. carried several large states by thin margins, Bush demonstrated that there is still considerable strength in the theory of a "Republican lock" on the Electoral College. For a generation Republican presidential candidates have enjoyed an advantage in the distribution of electoral votes, and Bush exploited that benefit...
Does Bush's victory -- the fifth for a Republican in the past six elections -- signal a durable partisan realignment in American politics? Not quite. The G.O.P. lost strength below the presidential level, and Bush failed to duplicate Reagan's attraction for some voting blocs. Some analysts view the result as a triumph of political technique rather than political philosophy. Says Andrew Kohut, president of the Gallup Organization: "The Bush people are a lot better at their jobs than the Dukakis people. I don't think the election tells us much about realignment." A successful Bush Administration could lead to another...
...Crimson led the Ivies in offense, and today those statistics should be backed up with points. Harvard will score with consistency. On defense, the Crimson's weakness has been in defending the pass. Today, it faces a run-oriented offense which plays right to its strength. Harvard will...