Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's push for a prayer amendment may reflect longstanding conviction, but its timing and strategy at least have been heavily influenced by electoral calculation. Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants contributed many ballots to Reagan's 1980 sweep. But some have been grumbling that the President has done little to advance the so-called social issues that concern them most, like antiabortion legislation. Some months ago, White House strategists decided that the outset of the presidential campaign was the right time to placate this "core constituency" and that school prayer was the issue to stress in doing so. Explains...
...these difficulties, however, could prove surmountable. The money began to flow while the New Hampshire votes were still being counted. In an Atlanta suburb, Hart workers who had assembled to watch the results on TV Tuesday night were so enthused by the Senator's sweep that they chipped in $1,000 on the spot and another $8,000 in pledges. "Not bad for a campaign that had been taking in $17,000 a day nationally," observed...
...team that began the weekend just a sweep of Cornell and Columbia away from at least a tie for that ever-elusive Ivy crown. Harvard could only dream of what might have been...
...only a weekend sweep of Cornell and Columbia now stands between the Harvard men's basketball team and at least a tie for its first ever Ivy title...
...Crimson used wins in singles from Kathy Vigna, Erika Smith, and Debbie Kaufman and then a sweep of all three doubles matches to post one of its biggest wins in history over the 13th-ranked Tigers...