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Dayton Hudson's acquisition of the 138-year-old Marshall Field's, which earned $90 million before taxes in 1989, would create a new regional stronghold. Already the leading department-store operator in Minneapolis and Detroit, Dayton Hudson would become the largest in the Windy City as well by taking over Marshall Field's 24 stores, including 13 in the Chicago area...
West Virginia in general, and Fayette County in particular, is a Democratic electoral stronghold. West Virginia has chosen a Republican presidential candidate only three times since 1940. Fayette County voters chose Walter F. Mondale over Ronald W. Reagan, 61 percent to 39 percent. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis beat George Bush in 1988 by a margin greater than...
...breakfast was followed by the city's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, which began at 1 p.m. at the Broadway Red Line MBTA station and looped around South Boston, a stronghold of the city's Irish-Americans...
...their "quick counts" and the battalions of reporters were frantically calling in the news, the word had spread across Managua. "We're going to win!" shouted a woman tending a bubbling cauldron in front of her house in one of the city's poorest barrios, thought to be a stronghold of the ruling Sandinistas. The Sandinistas? she was asked. "No, not those sons of bitches," she spat back. "The Dona. Dona Violeta...
Members of Liberia's Gio tribe have long suspected that President Samuel Doe, who belongs to the Krahn tribe, would like to eradicate their people. Lately their fears have been reinforced as Doe's troops moved into northern Nimba county, a Gio stronghold and hotbed of opposition to the government. The army's ostensible purpose is to rout a ragtag band of perhaps 200 insurgents, but the soldiers have exceeded that mandate, looting and burning towns and firing on Gio civilians...