Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also, the fiercer the fight gets, the more difficulty the eventual winner may have unifying the party for the fall campaign...
...combination of the lottery--the winner of which will also travel to the Aloha State--and alumni donations has helped to defray the cost of the trip by about $80 per player, junior President Charlie Weeks said yesterday. The reduced cost will still be in excess of $500 for each of the 30 team members taking part, he added...
...person who won't be worrying about the cost is the winner of last night's lottery. Eliot House Superintendent Peggy Garland. Her lucky ticket entitles her to accompany the team to Hawaii, along with a guest of her choice...
These facts demand that society look long and hard at the possible implications for modern democracy. Do TV projections discourage voters favorable to the losing candidate from going to the polls? Do they also scare away voters favorable to the apparent winner by making them feel overconfident? Do voters for an underdog turn out early, and in large numbers, precisely because they share Wirth's and Connolly's opinion and hope to push their candidate to victory in spite of expectations...
...medium is not the message. It never has been, in the competitive and lucrative American media. The New Hampshire returns embarrassed the national press more than any other recent event. After predicting the winner incorrectly, the networks received insult added to injury through Hart's record-breaking margin. It's simply impossible to conjecture that the networks did anything other than report the facts as they saw them; any other approach would be vulnerable to ruthless exposure by a competitor. And any media organization, however small, which had correctly predicted the return would have made the election scoop...