Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moderates feared that a Benn victory would cause further defections to the centrist Social Democratic Party, formed in March by four former Labour Cabine members...
John Browne, British Conservative member of parliament, said yesterday the new centrist alliance between Britain's Liberal Party and the recently formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) poses "a serious threat" to both the Right and the Left...
Most of the incoming Politburo members appear to share Kania's centrist position. Two important exceptions: Interior Minister Miroslaw Milewski and Construction Worker Albin Siwak, both conservatives. They are expected to ally with the old Politburo's one surviving hardliner, Stefan Olszowski, to resist further political reforms...
...also a vindication of his long-range political strategy. After winning the presidency last month with a surprise victory over Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the center-right incumbent, Mitterrand disbanded the National Assembly, which had been controlled by Giscard's coalition, an amalgam of the Gaullist and centrist forces that had run the government for 23 years. In the campaign to elect a new Assembly, Mitterrand was threatened from two directions. If the right regained control of the chamber, France could face a constitutional crisis; the institutions of the Fifth Republic are not designed to work if the Elys?...
...expression in the press was " As goes Stewart, so goes the court." During the more liberal days of the Warren Court (1962-69), Stewart was often in the minority but with the passing of that era he again became what he remains today, a crucial swing man. As a centrist, Stewart has shrunk from formulating sweeping principles that would place him in one camp or another. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: " He's not going to be remembered as a great Justice, but that's part of his strength in a way. He was not an ideologue...