Word: winner
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...other; another could be a debate along present lines; the third and fourth might be modeled on Polsby's extended conversations. In some form, debates probably will and certainly should continue; the task is to prevent them from freezing into a mold that satisfies no one except the winner. -By George J. Church...
...issue or that, of drawing blood, even of scoring a knockout. In the debate itself, the candidates try to look and talk tough. Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates and their breathless aftermaths demand a winner. If there is none on first viewing, one will be created. One contender is expected to exult and preen, the other to scowl and slink out of town, like Floyd Patterson after his K.O. by Sonny Listen in Chicago. It is the heavyweight championship of politics, and in the ensuing...
...some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. A professor emeritus at Cambridge University, Stone is the fourth British economist to receive the award since it was created in 1969, and the first non- American winner since...
...donation was made by Democrats for the '80s, a Washington-based political action committee. The PAC bought tickets to a fund-raiser on Sept. 14, co-chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, to benefit the winner of the Democratic Senate primary...
...Walesa, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize, said he appealed for restraint in a speech to worshipers following a Mass at St. Brygida's Church in Gdansk...