Word: win
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saundra Graham, a 12-term state representative, lost the Democratic nomination for her seat to political newcomer Alvin E. Thompson in September primaries. After waging a vigorous write-in and sticker campaign to win back the seat, she lost again to Thompson in November's general election...
FloJo just didn't pop up and win three gold medals and a silver in the 1988 Olympics. She missed making the 1980 team by a couple of spots. In 1984, she won the silver medal in the 200 meters and was ready to become a superstar. In 1988, she proved she was the fastest woman in the world, breaking two records...
Maybe it wasn't only the defense that gave Yale the edge. The Elis wanted to win more...
...kids just refused to lose to Harvard," Yale Coach Diann Nestel said. "They played with a lot of heart and kept a real focus on what we needed to do to win...
...claiming responsibility for Finucane's death, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, an outlawed Protestant group, declared that the lawyer was "an officer in the I.R.A.," a charge his family denied. Finucane represented the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, in its successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...