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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roosevelt recalled the vow Kennedy made in his January announcement speech to debate his opponents "one at a time, or all at once...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Kennedy Nixes Roosevelt Offer | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

...play basketball and became a black-power militant. Today Ford, 39, is living in the west-side Chicago neighborhood where he grew up. A nattily dressed real estate developer, he has a big house and two cars, one of them a BMW. But he has also kept the vow he made in college: to use his education as a lever to help other black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping a Sense of Commitment | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

sanctuary movement who aided and harbored illegal aliens, but they vow to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...give up their titles. Like Sir Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate, who gave up his title and most of his name (he goes by Tony Benn now) to keep his seat in the Commons. It's not clear what a comparable rule in this country might be, though a vow never to appear on Carson or eat at Elaine's would be a start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Celebrities in Politics: a Cure | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...opposition response: if the 1988 presidential elections come under the current constitution, which leaves the voting to an electoral college likely to be dominated by members sympathetic to Chun's party, Chun will be able to handpick a successor. Chun replied that the President elected in 1988 would vow to hold elections again, in 1989, under the new rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Lunch at the Blue House | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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