Word: swing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perhaps more importantly for the GOP is the question of whether Dole will use the next two weeks to help the party retain the hold on the House it won in 1994. The Dole campaign's recent shift in focus to California, all but conceding a number of smaller swing states such as Pennsylvania and Connecticut, shows a commitment to help out the party in a state that has a number of hotly contested seats. Monday, Dole eschewed attacks on Clinton in order to concentrate on his economic plan. Unfortunately, he is finding an increasingly chilly reception even from...
...Swing voters hold a nation's secrets. Sometimes they are important because of what they tell us about an election. But when the race isn't even close, they are important because of what they tell us about ourselves...
...have already been spent hunting for her, with an intensity matched only by her immunity to the whole effort. Campaign consultants are stalking her, the conventions were staged for her, the speeches scripted for her, the ads aimed right at her. And because she is so different from the swing voter who shaped this nation for a generation, she has miniaturized its politics into a kitchen-table bargaining session over what it might take to help her get through...
...trace this political transformation, TIME set out to find a woman who could tell the story of this election by telling the story of her life. Lori Lucas lives in Shrewsbury, Missouri, an undecided voter in a bellwether town in the ultimate swing state. She is not just an archetype; she's a revelation, a spirited wreck of political contradiction. She's an unmarried mom who thinks the country is on the wrong track because the family unit has broken down. She drives a gas-guzzling station wagon because it's safe but worries so much about the environment that...
...golf, the average 18-hole round at a regular pace ought to take three hours. But what inevitably ends up happening is a disastrous four-and-a-half hour round. Guided by the virtue of patience, golfers address the ball for hours rather than simply relaxing and taking a swing. The practice of impatience does not demand an abandonment of prudence and discretion. In fact, it requires just the opposite...