Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dorning 43 5 56 45 Crimson associate managing editor Paul Duke Jr. 52 23 48 27 Crimson Washington bureau chief Michael W. Hirschorn 45 10 54 40 Crimson national political correspondent Michael D. Knobler 53 23 46 27 Crimson national political correspondent *The District of Columbia a Mondale stronghold is not include...
...know that if we separate from the people, it means we lose the war." Even so, one important guerrilla commander, Joaquín Villalobos, head of a faction known as the People's Revolutionary Army, was unable to attend. The reason: difficulties in traveling from his remote stronghold in the department of Moraz...
...condemn police, not the strikers, for the violence on the picket lines. The measure passed amid tumult and cheers for the N.U.M. president and hoots of derision for moderate union leaders. Then Kinnock lost another battle, this one over an arcane party rule giving local constituency committees-usually a stronghold of party leftists-the power to decide whether their parliamentary representatives should be allowed to stand for reelection. Kinnock wanted all Labor Party members, not just the tightly held local committees, to have a vote in the process. The conference rejected his proposal...
Silicon Valley is the Yuppie stronghold, and the computer boom has contributed significantly to the renewed faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity. The country's economic future, when viewed through a silvery high-tech scrim, does indeed look exciting. Moreover, the 21st century seems to be mingling with the 19th: entrepreneurism, led by the high-tech vanguard, has been imbued with a quasipatriotic urgency...
...country. Since then the Liberals have tended to prevail in the East, while the Progressive Conservatives dominated the West. Ontario, the country's most populous province, has alternated between the two parties. This time Mulroney picked up 67 out of 95 seats in Ontario and captured the Liberal stronghold of Quebec, winning 58 out of 75 seats (see box). To underscore his empathy for the French-speaking province, Mulroney, a Quebec native himself, chose to run for Parliament from his home constituency of Manicouagan. He won handily...