Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush is considering a number of possible running mates. Several factors--geography, ideology, personality--must be taken into account when Bush considers his potential Veep, but the overriding characteristic that Bush needs in a running mate is corruption...
...power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also by the right-wing National Action Party (P.A.N.), led by Manuel Clouthier. Says Political Scientist Jorge Castaneda: "No matter what form the democracy of this country will take, the next government will have to take the opposition into account...
Melnikov, the balding, bespectacled party leader in the Russian federation region of Komi, said restructuring of the party's policy-making Central Committee is proceeding too slowly and that Communists and other Soviets want people responsible for stagnation brought to account...
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...
...Marc Cohen, who follows the industry for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm, U.S. tobacco companies could lose 15,000 verdicts a year like Cipollone's and pay the total $6 billion in damages simply by raising the price of cigarettes 25 cents a pack -- even taking into account a 10% drop in business because of the price increase...