Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iowa caucus roll in tonight, Gary Warren Hart--or Hartpence, if you prefer, the 51-year-old ex-Colorado senator--will have beaten Donald Duck handily. But he'll be lagging behind most of the rest of the Seven Dwarfs in the country's first test of political strength...
...proved its strength earlier in the week with a close 3-2 loss to Eastern powerhouse University of New Hampshire. The Crimson (7-4-1 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy League) faced the Wildcats in December and was clobbered...
Instead of accurately depicting the course of a campaign, media polls merely register a snapshot of constantly fluctuating popularity. Media polls fail to gauge more important factors, such as the willingness of a supporter to switch to another candidate or the organizational strength of a campaign. The more cautious and probing surveys conducted by the campaigns themselves take into consideration these factors, which are often key to the voters' final decision...
...Carnegie Foundation's Boyer believes such federal action comes at the eleventh hour. "This nation cannot survive with any sense of strength or confidence if half our students in urban areas remain economically, socially and civically unprepared," he says. Public education is now on trial in America, and many educators feel that the decade ahead may be the last real chance for the nation's schools. That is, without doubt, the most urgent lesson that Principal Joe Clark can teach...
DESCRIPTION: Strength of Republican candidates among United States voters and Iowa voters...