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Challenger Disaster
CHALLENGER DISASTER CHALLENGER DISASTER. Perhaps no tragedy since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 had so riveted the American public as did the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986, which killed its seven-member crew. The horrific moment came... Read more |
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Peremptory Challenge
PEREMPTORY CHALLENGE The right to challenge a juror without assigning, or being required to assign, a reason for the challenge. During the selection of a jury, both parties to the proceeding may challenge prospective jurors for a lack of impartiality, known as a challenge for cause. A party... Read more |
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Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf , 1943-, Pakistani army officer, president of Pakistan (2001-), b. Delhi. After the partition of British India, his family resettled in Karachi, Pakistan; he spent (1949-56) some of his childhood in Turkey, where his father was posted as a diplomat. He entered the Pakistan Military... Read more |
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Joe Clark
Joe Clark (Charles Joseph Clark), 1939-, prime minister of Canada (1979-80), b. High River, Alta. He entered the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta in 1972 and became leader of the Progressive Conservative party in 1976. In the 1979 elections he led his party to victory and briefly replaced... Read more |
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edouard Balladur
Édouard Balladur , 1929-, French political leader, b. Turkey. He moved to France as a child and grew up in Marseille. A Gaullist and member of the Rally for the Republic, he served under Premier Georges Pompidou in the 1960s and was finance minister under conservative premier Jacques Chirac... Read more |
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Tom Watson
Tom Watson 1949- American golfer Tom Watson won eight major golf tournaments, including five British Opens, and challenged Jack Nicklaus for golf supremacy in the late 1970s. Regarded as a failure under pressure in his early years, Watson silenced critics by winning all major tournaments but... Read more |
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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich (Newton Leroy Gingrich) , 1943-, U.S. congressman, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-98), b. Harrisburg, Pa., as Newton Leroy McPherson. A history professor, he was first elected as a Republican from Georgia in 1978 and became the leader of those House conservatives... Read more |
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 1949) won election as president of the Republic of Indonesia in October of 2004, thus becoming his country's first directly elected president. An officer in the Indonesian army, but one regarded as a moderate with few links to the... Read more |
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Challenger expedition
Challenger expedition British oceanographic expedition under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thompson and the British naturalist Sir John Murray. Taking place from 1872 to 1876, it opened the era of descriptive oceanography . The team sailed in the converted 18-gun corvette... Read more |
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Kohl faces tough, telegenic adversary for German elections
...sweeping re-election victory in his home state, won his party's...today to challenge Chancellor...Kohl in fall elections. The 53-year-old Lower...from office after 16 years ... |
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Bush faces many challenges as he prepares for second term
...of major challenges confronting...exhausting.Iraqi elections at month...audiences.Are his goals too...has just a year or so before...months to move his agenda through...circumstances he faces when he takes ... |
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Bush Faces Many Challenges in Second Term
...of major challenges confronting...exhausting. Iraqi elections at month...audiences. Are his goals too...has just a year or so before...months to move his agenda through...circumstances he faces when he takes ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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THE HARDEST PART FOR CLINTON WOULD COME AFTER THE ELECTION
...campaign that victory is almost...among some of his top advisers...start the day after the election. A different...could be Clinton's Vietnam...short term. His whole economic...period of years, not ... |
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Clinton takes Pa., but still faces uphill fight
...a close. Clinton beat him...cheered her victory in a state...unification of his party and...stations. "After 14 long months...Indiana. His plane was...called in Clinton's favor...analysis of election ... |
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Gubernatorial Incumbents Face Stiff Challenges
...are facing tough re-election fights after yesterday...Marion Barry. After his arrest for...possession four years ago some people...Cuomo. In his victory speech ... |
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ROUND TWO: NEW HAMPSHIRE; Clinton, Romney step up attacks
...recover from tough setbacks...voters. After a stinging...Thursday, Clinton vowed to...has staked his candidacy...primary.Clinton - whose husband...done for 35 years and what...a general election ... |
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DEMOCRATIC SHOWING REFLECTS YET ANOTHER CLINTON COMEBACK PRESIDENT CLINTON...
...President Clinton has made...s midterm elections strengthened...held the election, and Republicans...at least four. The last...the sixth year of a presidency...unchanged. Clinton, whom the...last two years ... |
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Elections 2000: Jews gain seats in Congress, as new faces offset some losses
...as new faces offset somelossesBy...week's elections.Overall...Gejdenson lost his House seatand...stepped down after 18 years. Hissuccessor...millions of his own dollarsinto...for re-election -- ... |
 "The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)")
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Leading ladies: lesbian trio heads the pack of Election Day hopefuls on this...
...this midterm election could suffer...turnout in years, thanks...President Clinton's sex scandal...August -- after Clinton admitted...fall's elections, a figure...in these elections," such...publicly ... |
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