Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election officials. Outside the polls, the vote-buyers kept "bird dogs" on patrol to make sure that everything went smoothly. At one poll, it was reported, Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr. ordered onlookers to back away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed by two men while a third stood guard with a shotgun...
...party in the fractious Assembly, rejected the previous government, which was formed last summer by Alfredo Nobre da Costa, an apolitical technocrat, at the behest of President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. Eanes had just dropped Socialist Party Chief Mario Scares from the premiership after his governing coalition with the conservative Center Democrats fell apart. Scares was incensed by his ouster and was particularly upset because Eanes had not consulted the political parties before choosing Nobre da Costa. The former Premier insisted Eanes' action was "unconstitutional" and an example of haughty "presidentialism...
What Portugal now has is a government more to the right of center than any other since the revolution. Mota Pinto, 42, a brilliant former law professor at Coimbra University, intends to bring to Portugal what he calls reformism, which he defines as the gradual, realistic search for social and economic improvement. It is, he says, "a prospect, a criterion, a framework...
Other scientists were slightly more cautious. Larry Smarr of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics pointed out that the orbital reduction could have been caused by other influences, perhaps the tug of another unknown massive object. Still, Smarr and other astrophysicists seemed generally impressed. Said the University of Rochester's David Douglass, who was handing out buttons in Munich saying GRAVITY WAVES DO EXIST: "It is quite unlikely that Taylor's claim will be disproved...
...fewer than a hundred of the nation's almost 45,000 dialysis patients use CAPD. But that is likely to change. A year's dialysis at a kidney center now costs some $25,000 a patient; the dialysis bill for the nation as a whole, which is footed by the U.S. Government, totals $1 billion a year. By contrast, the tab for a CAPD patient is only about $8,000 a year, and is likely to drop as the technique becomes more popular. Says Nolph: "We have here one of those rare circumstances in modern times where something...