Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ARENA party in this month's presidential elections, the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas have offered to end the war. In return they have requested a six-month delay in the elections, allowing them time to organize for and participate in the presidential race. Despite anticipated outrage from the right, the centrist President Duarte has offered a compromise six-week extension...
...nearly a decade, Bush has been suppressing and denying his own centrist roots. In an interview with TIME on the eve of his Inauguration, Bush was asked whether he was a moderate. "No!" he snapped, reacting to the label as though it were a synonym for wimp. He protests too much, out of fear of the right. Helms & Co. sense that fear and mean to play...
...dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have fled to the G.O.P. One way to do that, says Nunn, is to adopt centrist programs that "don't appear to give away the store," a shift that could only succeed with Jackson's concurrence -- as unlikely a prospect as the actual eclipsing of Jackson himself. The Governor of New York champions another idea for dealing with Jackson. "We have to start treating Jesse like...
...Democratic Leadership Council was created to free the party from the "encumbrance" of special interests and move it to the center. A centrist candidate who was strong on defense was thought to have the best chance to win the 1988 election, and Super Tuesday was created in the South to give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster...
...President will practice budget restraint at home and respond prudently to Mikhail Gorbachev's overtures abroad. "Each candidate is a pragmatist," contends Stuart Eizenstat, who was Jimmy Carter's chief domestic adviser. "Neither is an ideologue. Temperamentally, each is cautious and, within his own party, more or less a centrist...