Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first Republican Governor in more than 100 years, after spending $7.2 million. So Bill Clements, 65, an oil-rich spendthrift, dropped $12.5 million this time, and expected a no-sweat reelection. Then, as his election-night party started, ABC News began predicting that Democrat Mark White would be the winner. Gasped one partygoer: "You're kidding...
Whichever team wins today will have at least a share of the title, and it this afternoon's winner beats its final opponent of the season--Harvard takes on Yale and Penn meets Cornell next weekend--it will claim sole possession of the Ivy crown...
...then emotion is usually what separates a winner from a lover in tournament play "In the Nationals everyone has the skills." Scalise said The NCAAs are a test of endurance It's a matter of maintaining emotional intensity for an entire 90 minutes and then playing just as hard the next game...
...mysterious Gypsy leader "Vladimir Krim," featured television ads depicting a Gypsy encampment on the ground of the company's Wobrun, MA headquarters. "It was a real laugh, "Bates recall. In the late '50s pilots on Eastern Airlines read their tags over the P.A. systems, and some tags featured "instant winner" cash prizes of 10 to 100 dollars...
...Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, a familiar tic that signaled he was back in high fettle. He ducked his head with the small self-conscious smile of the winner he always wanted to be, muttered something about not messing up the weekend entirely, and strode off to his helicopter for a few hours at his Virginia estate. That night the President talked with his brother Bobby about the crisis. As he had done so often over the past months...