Word: vs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiercely contested New York Governor's race, it's Garth vs. Deardourff. In the clamorous gubernatorial election in Ohio, it's also Garth vs. Deardourff. Even in December's presidential election in Venezuela, it's Garth vs. Deardourff. David Garth and John Deardourff are this year's top media mesmerists, the wizards who tell candidates how to project a winning image...
...country's electoral college-heavily weighted in favor of the pro-government Alliance for National Renewal (ARENA)-chose General Joao Baptista Figueiredo, 60, to succeed retiring President Ernesto Geisel for a six-year term beginning in March. The predictable vote was 355 for Figueiredo, vs. 226 for Monteiro, who represented the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), the country's only legal opposition party...
...wiped out in seven by-elections in English-speaking Ontario, where the next general election must be won. The country's chief opposition party, the Conservatives, won ten seats-including all but one of the Ontario constituencies. The Liberals' share of the popular vote dropped to 30.5%, vs. 43% in the 1974 national election. The opposition Conservatives, meanwhile, zoomed to 48.7%, from...
...flood did not actually begin with Farber, but with the Supreme Court's 1972 ruling in Branzburg vs. Hayes that reporters could be compelled to testify before grand juries. Many journalists argue that Branzburg and a few later decisions are proof of a growing judicial-and perhaps public-hostility toward the press, and fear that prosecutors and defense attorneys are exploiting that mood...
Princeton weekend--all events in Princeton, N.J. vs. the Tigers...