Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when his father, soon to become Prime Minister, persuaded Andreas to move back to his native land, did the younger Papandreou plunge into Greek politics. His father may have regretted the decision. Andreas' radical stands, including his opposition to the monarchy, weakened his father's centrist-left government, which fell after only 17 months, and the ensuing political instability provoked the military coup of "the colonels...
...carried the conference, but the battle was far from over. Continued misgivings could be read on the faces of several senior ministers, who saw Black pool as further polarizing British politics, thus benefiting the budding centrist alli ance of Liberals and Social Democrats...
Because the broad choices in 1980 resembled those in the 1964 election--with a relative centrist running against a relative right-winger--Verba said he expected Carter to win, as Johnson...
...this Sunday between the extremists and its old-line socialist faithful at the party conference in Brighton. Meanwhile the new Social Democratic Party, formed last March when a group of prominent Laborites broke away because of the party's leftward lurch, forged an alliance last week with the centrist Liberal Party. Object: to capture the moderate middle, Parliament and No. 10 Downing Street...
...they polled 14% of the vote in the general election of 1979. The marriage with the S.D.P. may have been one of convenience rather than passion, but if the two parties had remained separate they would have canceled each other out scrambling for the key centrist vote...