Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theory, PR is designed to make sure the fringe gets a voice in situations where traditional voting methods split two parties along a few mainstream issues. In Cambridge, candidates only need to receive support from one-ninth of the electorate, rather than a majority...
...role that the state is likely to play in regulating abortions is an issue sure to work its way into campaign rhetoric...
...With a sure sense of West Coast history, Morris shows how Nixon's early career grew naturally from a raw strivers' culture. Just as Nixon fought hereditary barons in campus politics, he later bucked the genteel Republicanism of Earl Warren. Morris demolishes the stereotype of Nixon as disembodied political gypsy. Nixon had roots in the same soil that produced the sagebrush rebellion. Morris also reconstructs the network of Nixon's early financial backers, including some of the millionaires who would later sponsor Reagan. After only six years in Congress, Nixon connected with a national following. Ultimately, it would unseat...
Earlier in the week six independent opposition groups had called for "quiet and solemn celebrations" throughout the country on the anniversary. Officials, fearing that the unauthorized gatherings could easily turn into giant antigovernment protests, sought to block them. To make sure that shops were well stocked during the week before the anniversary, authorities released onto the market large supplies of normally unobtainable imported bananas and oranges. "They continue to dangle these things in front of the populace as an incentive for political acquiescence," said a Western diplomat in Prague. "But it is clearly becoming harder and harder for them...
...relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries, are likely to be more an annoyance than a danger to farmers. In northern Minnesota, where some 1,200 wolves forage in a cattle-ranch and sheep-farm area, the highest annual payoff by a Government program set up to compensate stockmen for wolf kills has been...