Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party's mainstream that only a miracle could win him the 1988 presidential nomination, yet the candidates who have a realistic chance at that prize treat him gingerly, with a mixture of respect and fear. The reason: he might bring millions of new voters flocking to the party banner, but he might also cause them to rebel and in frustration shun the party...
Jackson promises to redouble that dilemma for the Democratic banner carrier in 1988. In speeches and interviews, he pours scorn on anyone who will move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...
...months, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries had seemed ready for the obituary columns. The oil ministers of the 13-nation group, which once cowed energy-importing countries and commanded banner headlines with every pronouncement, had become a group of divided and argumentative men, powerless to halt a long slide in petroleum prices. Last week, though, OPEC suddenly sprang from its deathbed and caught the world's attention once again. After nine days of tense meetings in Geneva, the cartel adopted a plan to slash its daily oil production by some 17% in the hope of driving prices back...
...greatest cycling duel in the 83-year history of the Tour de France ended last week on the Champs Elysees to the unprecedented strains of The Star- Spangled Banner. Greg LeMond, 25, became the first non-European to win the premier race in this most passionately parochial of Old World sports. And the easygoing American did it by triumphing in a fratricidal war with his teammate --and friend--Bernard Hinault, 31, who has become a two-wheeled French national monument. Over 2,542 miles, traversing 76 mountains and hills in the Pyrenees and Alps, covering as much as 160 miles...
...ancient Greeks, philosophers, politicians and just plain folk have debated the best form of society and the proper role of the state in the lives of its people. For more than a century, advocates of collective ownership and strong government control of the economy have marched under the banner of socialism. Those who champion private property, individual initiative and the pursuit of profit are in the capitalist camp...