Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Female candidates must often overcome the inbred mistrust of some women voters, who can be even more critical than the male constituency. Yet, says Susan Block, a member of the Iowa Women's Political Caucus, "the public is beginning to look at women with less suspicion. Voters often view a woman candidate as someone who has lived the human experience, had kids, done volunteer work, cooked supper and been to the grocery store. People can relate to her better than...
...early primaries or he will probably be finished. In the preprimary skirmishes, the results have been ambiguous. At the convention of the liberal New Democratic Coalition in Manhattan this month, he came in second and prevented Front Runner Senator Birch Bayh from winning the endorsement. In a caucus held by Massachusetts' Citizens for Participation in Political Action, a liberal group, he came in first. But he won only 38.7% of the vote after lobbying members for almost a year...
...side. Carey and his financial advisers, who gained great power over the city, ordered deeper cuts in the city budget and girded for an epic battle over a tax increase. The Governor had to overcome the opposition of upstate Republicans in the legislature as well as the Democratic minority caucus - blacks and Puerto Ricans - who protested reductions in social services and demanded a larger voice in city management. When he finally won his tax package, Carey took full responsibility for the unpopular action. Ford praised his "very courageous stand...
...McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex would be built not at Harvard - Kennedy's alma mater and his own choice for the library site - but instead, on the bleak new Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts...
...fascists were and are impartial--they killed socialists, feminists, and gay people by the thousands. With this in mind, it's realism, not paranoia, to say that if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately. Diana Sperling, HR Women's Center and HR NAM Womens' Caucus David Price, HR NAM Equal Admissions Committee