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Burned by a fierce confirmation fight that rejected Robert Bork, President Reagan picked Anthony Kennedy, a middle-of-the-roader who has played the role of balancer and swing vote.

From Newsweek • Apr. 10, 2010

Chairman Guy Farmer, a middle-of-the-roader in labor-management controversies, wants to return to his Washington law practice, has asked the White House not to reappoint him when his term expires Aug. 27.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commander in Chief General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, a middle-of-the-roader, tried to get the two factions together in the middle-of-the-road town of Horns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Montini, in charge of day-to-day operations, is thin, suave, cool, precise, and politically a middle-of-the-roader.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now 1964 is anybody's race, and the G.O.P. may well enlist a middle-of-the-roader to challenge Johnson—Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, even Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton or Michigan's Governor George Romney.

From Time Magazine Archive