Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duarte is really interested in is power," Hernandez said through an interpreter. "He was not elected because he had the capacity to lead but because the Reagan Administration needed to put a person in who looked like a centrist...
...embraced, like revitalizing education, are apple-pie issues that provoke little dissent. Others, such as his opposition to the colorization of Hollywood films, can be ridiculed as merely trendy. More significantly, he has edged leftward from his moderate moorings (he was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group) as he plays to the liberal activists who dominate the Iowa caucuses. He has reversed his support of tuition tax credits and now opposes back-door federal aid to private schools. He has soft-pedaled his stance on abortion, which he had opposed since his aldermanic days. "Current...
Churches of Christ dot the country; religiousexperts say they are the inheritors of the 19thcentury Campbellite Fundamentalist reform movementin America. The Church of Christ should not beconfused with the United Church of Christ, a muchmore centrist descendant of the New EnglandCongregationalist tradition...
...rivals these days are depicting him as Senator Thunderbolt. Gore has supported the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf, the invasion of Grenada and the bombing of Libya. He opposes the proposal by most of his opponents for a ban on missile flight tests. He says his centrist views make him more "electable" than the other five Democrats in the race, particularly Michael Dukakis, who opposes almost any use of American force abroad as well as virtually all new nuclear weapon systems...
Worries about the military played a major part in last week's aborted negotiations between Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung. Kim Young Sam, who shares the centrist policies of his rival, hinted that elements of the army were wary of the charismatic Kim Dae Jung. Kim Young Sam argued that he was the opposition's best bet to avoid friction with the military and therefore preserve democracy. But Kim Dae Jung spun that argument around. "On a couple of occasions," he said, "Mr. Kim Young Sam said that he would like to give up his candidacy in favor...