Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit to recover all of a promised $250,000 advance, settling for $83,000). Still, Safire offers lively anecdotes about the Administration. He is good at recounting exactly how policy was shaped and presidential speeches honed. (Nixon shrewdly asked his three writers, Liberal Ray Price, Conservative Patrick Buchanan and Centrist Safire, to make first drafts along the lines that they would find personally congenial, then often had them rewrite each other for balance...
...government to ask permission for abortion during the first ten weeks of pregnancy. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing entrusted the bill to Health Minister Simone Veil, 47, mother of three. She argued the case with intelligence and controlled passion. Only once did she lose her composure-when a centrist Deputy shouted, "Madame Minister, do you want to send children to the ovens?" Mme. Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz who saw her parents and brother perish in the ovens of World War II, scribbled a note of protest to the Deputy: "I cannot accept such statements in view...
...Daily News, finds the Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post...
...American press tends to promote Mavros as second to Caramanlis in political clout. Yet, as a minister in the same interim government, the Centrist leader has found it difficult to criticize the premier and project an independent identity. This factor may bolster the faction to his immediate left...
Savakis, Caramanis and Kitromilides speak of the oil fields in northern Greece as the next target of U.S. multinational corporate growth and they anticipate arrangements, between the right-centrist government of Caramanlis and American interests, that will leech the Greek homeland...