Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courting time in San Antonio. The suitors came early and stayed late. They made sure that the women staff members who accompanied them were highly visible, flourishing them like bouquets. Addressing the 800 delegates to the convention of the bipartisan National Women's Political Caucus, they offered lyrical tributes to the ability of women to influence the election of the next President of the U.S. And with good reason. Each-Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Alan Cranston and Ernest Hollings-is a Democratic contender for that very office...
...series of surveys and straw polls (some perhaps no more enlightening than a round of margaritas, but anxiously studied nonetheless). This month is filled with "cattle show" appearances before key political groups: the Sierra Club and the National Education Association a week ago, the National Women's Political Caucus this past weekend, the N.A.A.C.P. this week, the National Council of Senior Citizens later in the month. The fall will bring more straw polls, with key contests, so to speak, in New Jersey, Maine and Florida...
Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations said yesterday that the two sides agreed during the meeting with the mediator that, while each side would have a caucus room open to the public, the actual negotiations would be closed...
Both Powers and Bozzotto said yesterday that the mediator had been helpful in drawing up conditions to start the talks. They explained that Gomez had proposed the idea of separate caucus rooms for the groups...
...William H. Gray (D-Penn), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and a supporter of Philadelphia's Black mayoral candidate Goode, said that the Chicago election has no bearing on the viability of a black Presidential candidate...