Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come out of the council in recent years--the plan to give some of the council's surplus back to house committees, which are more attuned to the needs of students in the houses than the U.C. has been recently. In addition, his plan to form a First-Year Caucus should do much to compensate for the lack of social cohesiveness in the yard...
This year, the cable music network has awell-established nightly news show, and isequipped to launch a full-scale conventionoperation, Corrdina says. MTV puts together apackage every night, highlighting conventionevents and explaining the basics of the politicalprocess--what's a delegate, what's a caucus,what's a primary...
...widespread yearning for new faces and wholesale change. Women's rights -- particularly the right to choose an abortion -- were one of the convention's most prominent themes. Apart from his formal acceptance speech, Clinton decided to give his only public address to the National Women's Political Caucus, where some of the nation's women office seekers were assembled onstage. Clinton is fond of pointing out that he is the son of a strong mother, the husband of a strong wife and the father of a daughter who wants to grow up to build space stations. He received a foot...
...Massachusetts it's completely changed the spirit of the gay and lesbian community," says Gary K. Daffin, co-chair of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, the oldest the largest homosexual rights organization in the state...
...German unification triggered an embarrassing row that highlighted the disunity within the ruling coalition. The leadership of Genscher's Free Democrats, who are junior members of the three-party coalition, announced that Housing Minister Irmgard Schwaetzer would take over as Foreign Minister. Instead of rubber-stamping the appointment, a caucus of Free Democrats in the parliament rejected Schwaetzer and designated Justice Minister Klaus Kinkel. Members of the Christian Social Union, Kohl's other coalition partner, were so miffed at not being consulted about Genscher's replacement that they demanded a full Cabinet shuffle to restore confidence in the government...