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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still a toss-up between the GOP'sOliver Northand incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb.ROBB 37 (Fairfax Journal) 38 (VCU)NORTH 36 36BARRETT: "North has only 35 to 37 percent hard-core support, that support appears to be impregnable. They're just not paying attention to the salvos being fired at him." The other irony: the GOP lured independent Marshall Coleman into the race to stop the loose-cannon North, but Coleman appears to be siphoning more votes off Robb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA SENATE . . . IMPREGNABLE OLLIE | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

With only three games left in the season, the Ivy League is a toss-up between Penn and Cornell for Ivy League champion and a dog-fight among the other six teams for second and third place...

Author: By Amit A. Tiwari, | Title: Ivy Football Has Wacky, Wild Week | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

Since so few of the candidates actually have a platform, I decided toss...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Defending Hurlbut | 10/5/1994 | See Source »

...when you have all that down, you think you'll be prepared, and that when the ball flies towards you, you'll be poised to reach out and snatch that lump of cowhide and stitches in one hand, casually, maybe then uncaringly toss it back like some undersized fish. But when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Singing in the Rain, For Once | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...health-care decisions. It was Wofford's surprise victory three years ago over Dick Thornburgh, after a campaign that made health-care reform an issue, that first alerted politicians to its potential. But while Wofford is far ahead of Santorum in fund raising this year, their contest is a toss-up. "Health care is a significant factor that has energized a lot of people who are nonpolitical," says Santorum, with the clear implication that this time the newcomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off to the Races | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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