Word: campaigned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most objectionable part in this latest election drama was the role Glimp played. As University vice president, he should not have been involved in the Overseers campaign except in an unbiased capacity. The impartiality of University officials must be strictly maintained in an election for a body charged with evaluating the performance of all Harvard administrators...
...biggest challenge. Takeshita fell victim to his success at mastering the sometimes seamy rules of the system. In common with other party leaders, Takeshita indirectly received shares of cut-rate stock in Recruit, an aggressive information and real estate conglomerate. In all, Takeshita received more than $1 million in campaign contributions, stocks and secret loans from the company. The money went not to a personal account but to fund campaigns and pay staff salaries...
...surprised to see that there was no unity," says an official. "He ended the meeting by telling everyone he would make up his mind on his own." Shortly after that meeting, Bush signed a secret presidential finding authorizing the CIA to funnel $10 million into the opposition's political campaign. Their candidates insist that none of the money has reached them, but Noriega has capitalized on the U.S. interference to deflect the election's focus from himself...
...feisty tone was matched by a barrage of frank criticism from the floor, which was later printed in full in the Soviet press. Yuri Solovyov, the Leningrad regional party boss who had lost his uncontested election race for the new legislature, charged that Kremlin initiatives like the antialcoholism campaign and the program to foster cooperative businesses had been carried out with "inconsistency, haste and insufficient thought." Of perestroika, Solovyov said, the "minuses still significantly exceed the pluses." Moscow Mayor Valeri Saikin, another election loser, questioned whether democracy had not come to mean "everything is permitted...
...workers join the campaign for political reform, the government backs away from a threatened crackdown. -- Gorbachev purges 74 "dead souls" from the Central Committee. -- After a Prime Minister's downfall and a loyal aide's suicide, Japan ponders what's next. -- U.S. policy remains adrift as Washington predicts a rigged election in Panama...