Word: superable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world's best gate skier. But he is unusually agile and strong, and -- this is hard to express adequately -- confident. Earlier, when he caught an edge and bomba'd out of the super-G, this amazing man, unworried, said, "My resurrection is near...
...course in human diversity; the candidates spent a year talking and listening in living rooms and Rotary clubs from Iowa to New Hampshire. From now on, however, they will come to view the nation as an interchangeable sequence of airports, access roads and motel meeting rooms. The frenzy of Super Tuesday scheduling reduces voters to a blur -- sign-waving supporters, rapt faces in the crowd, a decorative backdrop for TV visuals...
...candidates are competing for attention that Southerners, like voters elsewhere, find it hard to sort them out. Only this week, as the television campaigns and phone banks go into overdrive, will Southerners begin to narrow their choices. Last week TIME correspondents visited several communities whose voters will decide the Super Tuesday battle...
...stakes are also suddenly very real. Solid black support and a potential three-way split of the white vote make it quite possible that Jackson will emerge from the Super Tuesday frenzy next week rivaling the front runner in delegate totals. Moreover, if he continues to attract a slice of white votes, he would become, at least for a while, the legitimate front runner, one whose clout could overshadow the little "yes, but" asterisk next to his name...
...major change is the arithmetic. Party rules now award most delegates by congressional district: any candidate who gets 15% of the vote in a district (down from 20% last time) gets a share of the delegates. Of the 167 districts in Super Tuesday states, Jackson's wall maps have 60 of them in blue, meaning that he could win them outright. An additional 45 are marked red, meaning that he could meet the threshold and get some delegates. Even rival campaigns and state party officials believe Jackson could emerge from the 14 Southern and border states with a plurality...