Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wolf said the unusually high number of candidates vying for the nine council positions--28 will appear on today's ballot--made the campaign a particularly arduous...
...campaign and in some of his presidential statements earlier this year, Bush accepted the proposition that the time to act is now. But the Commerce and Interior departments have waged constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the President's chief of staff John Sununu has taken to questioning aspects of the greenhouse theory. There is room for debate over the exact magnitude of climate change that will result from CO2 emissions, but no respectable scientist denies that if humanity keeps pouring gases into the atmosphere, the earth will heat...
Executives of Unisys Corp., some of whom have pleaded guilty to various conspiracy and bribery charges in the Pentagon procurement scandal, pressured others to make illegal contributions to D'Amato's 1986 campaign and then seek reimbursement from the Defense Department...
...best passages in the book recounts the campaign of 1968, a year of tragedy and stress. Nixon capitalized on the turmoil, playing to Main Street's abhorrence of disorder. Yet he also threaded his way between the extremism of George Wallace and the ambivalence of Hubert Humphrey. Nixon's caution almost enabled Humphrey to recoup in the final days, but the Republican knew his constituency well enough to squeeze out a puny plurality. Over the next four years, he built that slight advantage into a mighty force despite the agony of Viet Nam. Ambrose leaves his protagonist in inexplicable melancholy...
...head off, in Eastern Europe, the sort of protests that plague many of the Soviet republics. East Europeans are far less concerned about a Moscow-initiated crackdown than about a heavy-handed backlash from within the bloc. So is Mikhail Gorbachev. If Czechoslovakia were to launch an anti-opposition campaign, warns Bromke, "it would undermine Gorbachev's prestige at home and in the bloc and make it more difficult for him internationally...