Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inability to win the White House in four of the past five elections was rooted in the process's bias toward more liberal venues. They wanted the South to have a voice -- and they succeeded. Although Tennessee Senator Albert Gore is only a sometime Southerner, he is distinctly more centrist than the two front runners in his party. His strong performance last week gives him a chance to capture the nomination, or at least the second spot. The region's views will certainly be heard as the campaign unfolds...
After months of wrangling, the Social Democratic Party dismembered itself last week. At the University of Sheffield in central England, party delegates voted 273 to 28 to merge with the nearly twice as large Liberal Party. The two centrist groups had been partners under the Alliance banner since 1981, and began talking merger when their candidates won only 22 of 650 seats in last year's parliamentary elections. But while their formal marriage was intended to strengthen future showings, it sealed a bitter divorce between the Social Democrats and former Leader David Owen, who co-founded the party...
...easy to caricature Gephardt as a soulless technocrat masquerading as an angry populist. He has been derided for changing his tune on issues like abortion and moving away from his centrist record. But even when he seemed to be fading in Iowa last fall, Gephardt never jettisoned his controversial trade amendment, despite heavy criticism. Like Babbitt, Gephardt is willing to bear the bad-news message that America's economic distress stems from deeper causes than the budget deficit alone. And he has shown an attribute that should not be underestimated: no candidate in either party surpasses Gephardt in dogged determination...
...right: his clever tactic of positioning himself as the only Democratic centrist and his impressive grasp of the issues have made Gore, at 39, a viable contender for the top spot. But in recent weeks he has become something more: the only Democrat building a solid geographic base and, partly as a result, the only contender in either party developing an early lock on at least the second spot on a ticket. Having decided to concentrate on the South rather than Iowa and New Hampshire, the junior Senator from Tennessee has been reaping a daily harvest of endorsements from leaders...
...Centrist Republicans, however, regarded Nitze -- a Democrat since 1952 -- as an asset to bipartisan foreign policy. In 1969 Nixon personally asked Nitze to help launch the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He played a key part in negotiating the SALT I treaty of 1972 and worked on SALT II until he resigned in 1974, accusing Nixon of making too many concessions for the sake of an agreement that might save his embattled presidency from the effects of the Watergate scandal...