Word: weres
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Even as Bush dismissed the abortion rights debate as unimportant, Virginians were proving him wrong. A CBS news exit poll found that one-third of the Virginia voters considered abortion rights the foremost issue of the campaign. They proved it by electing as governor Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, a pro...
Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the...
Harvard entered one boat in both the A and B divisions. Although skippers John Dickson and Paul Sabin struggled with the B-boat throughout the two-day regatta, Bowers and his A-boat were clearly in control.
"In retrospect, we should have taken time out and talked it over a little more," Steele said, "but I thought we were in position where we had the momentum right there."
Discussions this spring between Polish authorities and Solidarity, which were also given the "roundtable" name, led to a non-Communist government in Poland.