Word: win
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What can you say? They outplayed us in every aspect of the game," Pioneer Coach Tom Postel said. "They controlled the ball 70 percent of the time, and you can't win games playing defense...
Although he dropped the first set, 6-1, freshman Albert Chang bounced back to win the second and third sets, 6-1, 6-3, over Dave Astorino...
...close match to Godman and Rich Lees. They dropped the first set but took the second, with both tiebreakers going to 7-5. In the tense third set the advantage swung back and forth, as both teams had trouble holding serve, but Godman and Lees hung on to win, 7-5. Crimson, 7-2 at Palmer Dixes Tennis Center...
Though blacks and whites each account for about 41% of the city's 3 million population, there are roughly 150,000 more white voters than black ones. Washington was able to win two terms by putting together coalitions combining virtually all black voters with about one-fifth of whites. But that coalition broke apart last week as 91% of whites opted for Daley and 94% of blacks cast their ballots for Sawyer. Turnout was a ho-hum 64.5% (compared with 74% in 1987), and the falloff in black districts was an especially sharp...
...named Jimmy Carter was Governor, and Carter favored a different reapportionment scheme. Let down by Carter, whom he had supported for years, Nunn challenged the man Carter appointed to the U.S. Senate. "I was only 33 then," says Nunn, "a junior legislator. Even Uncle Carl said I couldn't win, but I felt I had to try. I gave up a seat I probably could have held forever and took a chance...