Word: trend
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...distinction between candidate and President may become more blurred if the recent trend of organizing campaigns earlier and earlier continues. 1984, according to Teeley will be the test year for the trends of 1976 and 1980 when the two long-shot candidates--Jimmy Carter and George Bush--made their reputations by heavy campaigning for the Iowa caucus, a full month before the opening game, the New Hampshire primary. Teeley predicts that the Iowan caucus will find all the candidates working the crowd, but foresees no new dark-horse candidates emerging. "Nothing dramatic will happen," Teeley says...
...very difficult to say that you're going to cut off all relations with any government that doesn't live up to your standards," says Wagner. "There is a general trend in the lessening of these standards I feel general optimism...
...electorate's biggest message to Washington: Americans want a change. The trend was obviously conservative, away from the omniscient federalism of the Great Society, toward the decentralized approach of the Republicans...
...shortly after midnight when Dixville Notch, N.H., became the first community to cast its ballots and set a trend that never varied: 17 to 3 for the challenger. Once the big count began, all the shibboleths of the election-that Americans were confused, apathetic and wished a plague on all the candidates and, above all, that they were closely divided-were swept away by a tide of votes, some hopeful, many angry, that carried Reagan to victory...
HARVARD 13, ARMY 7--In 1981, it was 27-13 In 1982, it was 17-13 I'm no broker, but I spot a trend...