Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elder statesman who would no doubt have been the first choice of M.P.s in a smoke-filled room. The winner was Roy Jenkins, 61, a venerable politician who served in several Labor Cabinets and as president of the Brussels-based European Commission before helping form the new centrist party last year...
Most civilian leaders remained skeptical of the army's intentions. Declared Antonio Troccoli of the centrist Radical Party: "We will not judge names but will wait until concrete steps and policies are set down." Bignone's openness may clash with the tough views of Lieut. General Cristino Nicolaides, 57, who as army Commander in Chief acts as the true fount of authority. "It's difficult to make sense of a situation in which you have a hard-liner swearing in a moderate," reflects a diplomat in Buenos Aires...
...trying to present a somewhat similar image of his policy toward the Soviet Union: a string of arms-control proposals coupled with unyielding resistance to Soviet expansionism. Touring Europe two weeks ago, the President waved the olive branch so heavily that he stirred talk of a "new Reagan"-flexible, centrist and eager to negotiate. But last week, almost on the eve of new U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks, he decided to highlight the other aspect of his strategy. The old Reagan abruptly reappeared, rattling the arrows...
Yale University in New Haven, Conn.: "In urging you beyond ideology, I offer the view of one person, one who is clearly middleaged, middleclass, middle of the road-a view of one not given to extremes but to the middle. My middle view is the view of the centrist. I do not simply urge a long night of watching against the ideologue's delusive plausibility. I urge the positive, balanced, continuous operation of the mind and spirit that surges to do the work of civilization from the center without simplistic zealotry...
...Administration that is the father of the nuclear freeze movement, and they don't wish to continue to nurture that child. They would like to dismiss it, and one way to do that is to move, as many students of the presidency have often argued, to a somewhat more centrist position to appear more accommodating, to tone down the rhetoric, to come forth with more substantive proposals....I do think also, it took quite a while for this administration to get its act together and hammer out a start negotiating position. In fact, it wasn't really hammered out, because...