Word: wipeout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe and Washington predict that he has less than two years to complete his reforms and get the store shelves filled with the things his workers want to buy. If Gorbachev fails, his audacious political rendition of Surfin' U.S.S.R. could suffer the fate that wave riders most dread: a wipeout...
...Communist wipeout threatened to shatter the delicate power-sharing agreement that the party and Solidarity negotiated earlier this year. Not only was there a fear of backlash from angry Communist hard-liners opposed to compromise, but there was also a serious question of how the country could be governed when its ruling party had been overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate...
That, by the reckoning of Mondale's aides, put their boss over the top. He had gone into the final day of primaries just 225 short of a convention delegate majority. He had picked up a respectable 201 delegates on the with sey's wipeout of Hart partly offsetting the California defeat. The time difference from the Pacific Coast had blunted the impact of California. Most TV viewers had gone to bed, like Mondale, with the expectation that the nomination fight was over. In much of the U.S., the next day's morning newspapers conveyed the same impression. Mondale...