Word: winner
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Washington's victory would ordinarily assure his position as the first Black mayor in the city's history. In Chicago, every Democratic primary winner in the past 50 years has won the April election. It seemed natural, then, that Byrne should support Washington and accept her loss gratefully. After all, in 1979 when she defeated Bilandic, she had done so as a reform candidate, just as Washington did, and like him she had won because of the enormous percentage of Black votes she received. In February, Washington got 80 percent of the record-breaking 85 percent Black vote...
...their own towns, eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who was running in the Paris suburb of Clichy, a safe Socialist seat for 50 years; and Premier Mauroy, who has controlled the northern industrial city of Lille since...
...American Grill in a city called Los Angeles. It was judgment night for the Sixth Annual International Imitation Hemingway Competition. If you have been to Ernest Hemingway judgment night, then you know how it is. Six judges reading the entries. Spare lean entries. Parodies. The winner was a woman named Lynda Leidiger, 30, with a story about a Valley Girl in a shopping mall. "In the Galleria, it was fine. Sometimes clean and warm and bright. Sometimes clean and warm and cold . .. She had been there as long as the concrete, longer than Sears ... 'We will be fierce...
...Stenmark and everyone else to the bottom of Colorado cliffs in Aspen and Vail, ensuring his third straight championship. "Europeans aren't such great travelers," Mahre said compassionately. "They miss their mountains." Stenmark misses his World Cups. "I'm disappointed," said the former king of the hill, winner of three overall titles before Mahre. "I think I can never win the World Cup again." So Mahre's dominance is complete...
DIED. Ulf von Euler, 78, groundbreaking Swedish physiologist who in the 1930s discovered prostaglandins, the remarkable hormones used in birth control pills, and who was co-winner of the 1970 Nobel Pri/e in Physiology for his work in detecting noradrenaline, a key neurotransmitter that controls such involuntary actions as the heartbeat and the body's response to stress; of arterial disease; in Stockholm. Von Euler's research led to the identification of a number of so-called transmitter substances, including polypeptides, which appear to be the agents that deliver messages of pain to the brain...