Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politicians dominated the council chambers. Now, the council features four "Independents"--relatively conservative neighborhood politicians--four Cambridge Civic Association members--liberals who owe their election to a shaky coalition of tenants and the Brattle St. wealthy--and one Alfred E. Vellucci, a self-described "small independent." Vellucci is the swing vote on most important issues; of late the 30-year council veteran and former mayor has been leaning left...
...will any reader who spends a summer evening with Gerlach's despised dozen. The men profiled in this long-overdue tribute were not infallible, and they knew it. "The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half swing," admits Veteran Bill Kinnamon. "The toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play." But all the officials consider themselves honest; all believe that if they missed an occasional decision, they called every game well and truly. So they did, and collectively they and their colleagues have kept...
Bush will strengthen the ticket in several large states, including Illinois, Ohio and his home state of Texas. Bush will also give Reagan much needed help in three swing states that G.O.P. strategists consider very important but difficult for their candidates to carry: Michigan and Pennsylvania, where Bush defeated Reagan in the primaries, and New Jersey. All six states are elements in what Reagan's aides call his "redundancy" strategy. This means that Reagan will campaign hard in more states than he needs to win the election?in contrast to Ford's 1976 "big-state" strategy, in which he conceded...
Hardly had Reagan received the nomination when Carter sharply attacked him and his party. During a swing through Florida, the President denounced the Republicans as "men of narrow vision who are afraid of the future and whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip." Carter recalled that the Republicans "brought us the disgrace of Watergate," though Reagan can hardly be blamed for that. As the campaign heats up, Carter also is expected to make aggressive use of the hard-line G.O.P. platform, particularly its abandonment of support for the ERA, its call for achieving unquestioned military "superiority" over...
...I.O.C. also voted last week to install Spain's Juan Antonio Samaranch as its president when the eight-year term of Ireland's beleaguered Lord Killanin is extinguished along with the Moscow flame on Aug. 3. A former boxer who now prefers to swing at golf balls, Samaranch, 60, will resign this fall as his country's Ambassador to the Soviet Union to devote full time to the nonpaying position. Like most of his I.O.C. colleagues, the diplomat takes a dun view of the American-led boycott, but insists that he is "totally committed" to having...