Word: sweepingly
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...wide lead in total delegates (1,564 to 941, as of last Saturday) because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago. Even if Hart should sweep the five remaining primaries on June 5, including those in California (306 delegates at stake) and New Jersey (107), his delegate total would still be just about 1,200-well short of the 1,967 needed to nominate. Mondale at the same time would probably have 1,600 delegates who were...
...will be bicoastal for the next fortnight, campaigning in California and New Jersey, spending heavily on TV ads. Under the California rules, the candidate whose delegate slates run strongest in each of 45 congressional districts could capture all the delegates for that district, making possible a big statewide delegate sweep. The image that Hart is trying to project-rugged and glamorous, unburdened by tradition, receptive to novel ideas-should play well among California voters, many of whom see themselves the same way. But Mickey Kantor, the high-gear manager of Mondale's California effort, asserts that his man will...
Some have even suggested, along with Economist Alfred Telia, that a national lottery be established, patterned on that of Canada, to battle the federal deficit. "It's inevitable," says Samuel Valenza Jr., publisher of Lottery Players Magazine. "Lotteries will sweep the country." Others may be less exuberant, but there is no doubt that for the moment, the stakes are indeed sweeping...
Seeking to avenge a four-game sweep by Milwaukee in last year's conference semi-finals, the Celtics poured it on for their eighth consecutive home victory in the playoffs this spring...
Boston is a city in flux. Many of the neighborhoods are changing, as outsiders sweep in, disrupting the status quo that has characterized most of Boston's history, and the racial tensions that currently exist are more a product of resistance to change rather than prejudice directed specifically at Blacks...