Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign is not likely to become any less intense. For Dole at 64 and Bush at 63, this may be the last chance to run for the office they so desperately want. Having overcome all the adversities life has thrown at him, Dole sees the presidency as one more challenge to conquer so as to make the pain go away. Bush, for his part, sees a President every time he looks in the mirror, and has ever since he was a schoolboy...
...process, Gorbachev has thrown Washington, Pakistan and the rebel mujahedin off balance. "Gorbachev has taken the initiative," said a U.S. observer close to the Geneva talks. "If there is no peace agreement, people will blame us." The Reagan Administration seems unsure whether to trust Soviet intentions and the outcome of the Geneva talks. "Right now," said an Administration official, "there are loopholes big enough to drive a truck through...
...There's an aura about Harvard. They win sometimes before the first puck is thrown in. We came in here confident...
...times people who live in overcrowded apartments, where there are limits on the number of residents, will say there are fewer people in their households because they think somehow Uncle Sam will notify their landlords and get them thrown out," Rubin says. "Sometimes women will also omit their husbabnds' names from the census because they think they will get more welfare money to take care of their children...
...Boitano would not try the jump for which he is best known, the quadruple toe loop, at the Olympics. Never performed successfully in competition, the quad has become the slippery grail of skating. Boitano practices it daily and hits almost 100% of the time. But in competition, he has thrown it -- and blown it -- four times, most noticeably at the 1987 world championship. Leaver sees little point in risking another disaster when Boitano already has what is considered the most technically difficult program ever and can score 6.0s without the quad. Boitano finds the decision somewhat disappointing but admits...