Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dreamers still think it's possible for a woman or a minority or an ethnic to be part of a winning ticket in 1988. The realists say a Mario Cuomo or Dukakis can't win because they can't do well in the swing regions of the nation--California and the South...
...Democrats can't count on California, which supported Ford against Carter in 1976. That leaves just the South as the most important region to capture. And since Southern Blacks automatically vote Democrat, it means that Southern whites will have the crucial swing vote...
...anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue. Later Leonard Bernstein brought a furious solemnity to Gershwin's Prelude in C-sharp Minor. And at the climax Movie Maestro Johnny Green unearthed half-century-old arrangements of Gershwin songs and made them swing like...
Haggerty, however, has high expectations for his prized thrower. He believes that Russell can swing the hammer over 220 meters and be among the top four throwers in the nation...
...Korean protests and student rhetoric turned sharply anti-American. The U.S. has since urged Chun to help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "We believe this is a historic opportunity, and both Chun and the opposition have got to take it." A breakthrough will be difficult to achieve, however, because the country has little tradition of political accommodation...