Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party can unify behind a nominee. As a first tentative step (and as a way to retire his $160,000 campaign debt), George McGovern last week tried to bring all three candidates together at a glittery Los Angeles fund raiser. Jackson, resentful that McGovern had endorsed a Mondale-Hart ticket, backed out. Some what wistfully, McGovern implored Hart and Mondale, "Go as gently as you can on each other." That brought grim smiles from the two adversaries, who were standing awkwardly ten feet apart. But no handshake...
...With the ticket to the Final Four national championships in hand (by virtue of its Eastern crown), but no money to pay for it, the ruggers went up against their toughest opponent of the year: that old nemesis, the Athletic Department...
...desert and trying to turn the plot into a workable farm, using a new irrigation method he developed. And Maass will be doing more than just homesteading. He plans to conduct two research projects, advise a small number of seniors on their theses, and find time for a season ticket to the Boston Symphony...
...that cost over $40,000, involving mailings to thousands of educators, and air travel for the four candidates to criss-cross the country. Harvard finally chose its top administrator. One Crimson editor said of the new president, "He's Derek Bok, he's the Answer, the Savior, the Lucky Ticket, the Academy Messiah...
Among Republicans, speculation about female vice-presidential nominees is purely that, since George Bush is not about to be nudged off the ticket. The Republicans, however, might have more to gain from having a woman on their ticket, since it is Ronald Reagan who is struggling to close the gender gap. Moreover, the Republicans might have an easier time picking a top-drawer female candidate. "We would be in a better a position than the Democrats," says Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 51, who heads the list of her party's female vice-presidential prospects, "because we have more...