Word: three-term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what could be the most startling reverse, Oregon's irascible Wayne Morse, 68, was running narrowly behind Republican Robert Packwood, 36, a three-term state legislator. The 24-year reign of Wayne has been one of the most remarkable in the Senate. He switched parties in mid-career and upset his own state Democrats by endorsing the 1966 Senate Republican candidate, having broken with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam. Oregonians have wearied of his maverick ways. In debate, Morse seemed a pale shadow of himself, while Packwood appeared to be the aggressive Morse of old. Packwood organized superbly...
...Texas' three-term Lieutenant Governor, Preston Smith, 56, a homey, lackluster conservative from Lubbock, defeated Liberal Houston Attorney Don Yarborough* by 756,909 votes to 620,726 in a runoff for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Though articulate and imaginative, Yarborough failed to win any major financial or editorial support against Smith, who called for "more of the good, sound, conservative government we have had in the past." In November, Smith will face Wichita Falls Attorney Paul Eggers, a virtually unknown candidate who is unlikely to make Texas history by becoming the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction...
Though the Senator cited age as the reason for his retirement, he was clearly aware of the challenge of Iowa's three-term Democratic Governor Harold Hughes, 45, who announced his Senate candidacy last month, Hickenlooper has yet to pronounce a preference for a successor between two Republican contenders, State Senator David Stanley, 39, and former Representative James Bromwell, 47, but he has high respect for Hughes. "A powerful vote getter, a hard man to defeat," he said. Replied Hughes, after Hickenlooper's announcement: "It'll be a tough race no matter whom I face-because...
...Business School and the Graduate School of Design will offer their first joint course next semester--a three-term seminar on urban analysis, using the case-study method...
...Political. Warren had a long career in public life before coming to the court. In all three major areas where the court has left its mark. Warren had previously taken opposite stands. During 23 years as deputy district attorney, then D.A. of Alameda County and attorney general of California, he was, as he puts it, "a hard prosecutor." As for civil rights, he outspokenly backed the infamous internment of all California residents with Japanese blood during World War II. Finally, as three-term Republican Governor, he vigorously expressed his opposition to a more representative reapportionment of voting districts; it would...