Word: upset
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...when 411 delegates will be selected in five states. The biggest is Ohio, where 154 delegates are at stake in a primary on Tuesday, and it is exactly the kind of heavily unionized, high-unemployment state where Mondale has won his biggest victories. Even if Hart should score an upset, the odds against him would still be formidable. If Mondale wins, and runs strongly in Indiana, Maryland and North Carolina as well, his delegate count could surge close enough to the 1,967 needed to nominate that Hart's chances would be all but foreclosed...
...dissatisfaction of some leaders of the armed forces stems in part from the involvement of at least 6,000 Libyan troops in the civil war in Chad. The officers are also reported to be upset about the growth of the "people's army," a politicized militia whose existence threatens the armed forces' influence. Last month Libyan air force planes bombed an army base in Benghazi after all or part of the garrison mutinied. Reports from foreign residents say that about 20 soldiers were killed. But the biggest disruption occurred on March 25 when a mysterious explosion heavily damaged...
...unseeded Minutemen advanced to the quarterfinals yesterday with a 6-5 overtime upset of Yale in New Haven, Conn. Harvard, the tournament's fourth seed, had a first round...
...write the diocese's presiding bishop, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore Jr., "if it shocks you as much as it did me." Cathedral Dean James Parks Morton, who organized the display with Moore's concurrence, responded that the effort to "send a positive message to women" had upset only the same people who oppose ordination for women. Said Sandys (who is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill): "It shows that the church still has power and that people do care...
...potential researchers should not expect much pay in return for their sore feet and upset stomachs, Let's Go editors say. Few make any surplus from the flat rate Let's Go gives them for their expenses, even when it is as much as $2400. Those touring in Scandinavia and the U.S. have actually reported losing money on this summer venture...