Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tomorrow, Malone, a business executive from Waltham, will try to stop Edward Kennedy's re-election to his Senate seat for a sixth term, and Fiscus, an engineer originally from Pittsburgh, Pa., will challenge U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.), who is defending for the first time Massachusetts' Eighth District congressional seat, which...
...Townsend had the money, the familial support and the name recognition in her bid for Congress against a first-term incumbent. But she lost to Bentley, garnering only 41 percent of the vote, despite efforts to exploit her name...
...years have seen a lot of changes for Graham. She now holds seats in both the City Council and the State House. As a six-term state representative, she faces Barrett not as a demonstrator, but as a colleague...
...most important choices of the waning years of this century, despite the parlous state of the campaign. Never before have voters 40 and younger seen a ballot without the name of the incumbent President. Elections like 1988 that are not automatic referendums on the past presidential term tend to be political watersheds. The choice of John Kennedy in 1960 ushered in a brief but turbulent Democratic revival marked by domestic idealism, the triumph of the civil rights movement and then the agony of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon's victory in 1968 heralded two decades of conservative rebellion against domestic spending...
...paradox has bent the collective mind of the electorate into a pretzel. Before last week's debates, the Progressive Conservatives had looked like a good bet to win a majority in the House of Commons for a second consecutive term. A Gallup poll estimated that the Tories would claim roughly 40% of the vote -- enough to win 193 of the House's 295 seats -- with the New Democrats running at 29%, and Liberals at 28%. But Gallup also reported that 42% of Canadians oppose the free-trade agreement, 34% support it, and almost a quarter of the country is undecided...