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...might be best to consider some recent Chicago history. In 1979, an upstart city commissioner for consumer sales, Jane Byrne, challenged Daley's successor, Mayor Michael A. Bilandic. Thanks to a winter blizzard that paralyzed city services and embarrassed the Bilandic administration, Byrne upset Bilandic in the Democratic primary, defeated the Republican candidate, and became Chicago's first woman mayor. They said the machine was dead, and Jane Byrne had killed...
...national champion require thought back an upstart Yale squad, 7-2, Saturday at Hemanway Gym to close out a perfect 10-0 dual match season...
...those sold worldwide. But in one area IBM had long been conspicuously absent. Except for a brief, abortive fling in the mid-1970s at selling a small desktop machine called the model 5100 (cost: up to nearly $20,000), the corporation left the personal computer field to upstart firms like Apple and Tandy...
...battle for this Florida ticket represents a confrontation between the old women's soccer aristocracy and the upstart younger programs. Harvard has been at the forefront of women's soccer ever since intercollegiate women's soccer began to get serious...
...thought. But that seems a bit extreme for this gambling brand of '80s politics. My friends the politicos chose candidates because they could relate to them as they could to, say, football teams. They were winners or they were underdogs or they were perrenial favorites being challenged by upstart newcomers. Politics wasn't discussed quite as much as "coolness" or "upsets...