Word: tossups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great strengths," says James S. Polshek, dean at Columbia's school of design. "There are only two schools that really compete for the best students, and those are Columbia and Harvard. It really comes down to a kind of tossup between them...
...also set the stage for a photo-finish race between three-term Republican Congressman Paul Trible and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Richard Davis for his seat. For the past two months, Virginia's undecided vote has remained at 20% in a contest the pollsters now rate virtually a tossup...
...contract that gives Chrysler workers some $2 per hour less in wages and benefits than are received by employees at either General Motors or Ford. Ratification voting by the union's rank and file is expected to be completed this week, and industry analysts rate the outcome a tossup...
...father finish seventh--good enough for a seat on the nine-member council--and he watched his father hold the seat until he died 14 years later in 1949. At that point, it was only a question of which son would run to fill the vacancy. "It was a tossup," Walter says, but Edward J. Sullivan had a job that allowed for easier campaigning, and so he made the bid. And, of course, he won. A year later, in January of 1950, the Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown laid off Walter. "And from that day forward I started campaigning...
...PASOK holds only 93 of Parliament's 300 seats, vs. 172 for Rallis' ruling New Democracy Party, the Papandreou organization has rapidly gained strength since its founding in 1974, after the collapse of seven years of military rule. The outcome of the election is now considered a tossup...