Word: centrist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...several days after the election, Giscard toyed with the idea of forming a new centrist "liberal" party aimed at blocking Chirac's relentless drive for power. But Giscard's U.D.F. followers in parliament, anxious to hold their seats, seemed far more interested in making a deal with Chirac than in sharing the ex-President's martyrdom. Said one U.D.F. deputy: "I can understand the President's pain and recriminations. But right now we have to keep our fists in our pockets and try to save the house...
...office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic Labor Party after four decades of growth in Sweden's social experiment. Last week the only alternative to the socialists, the ruling three-party coalition of Centrist Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin, was in trouble. Once again the bedeviling issue of tax reform was to blame...
...being effectively challenged from both the left and the right. On the left, his closest rival, perennial Socialist Candidate François Mitterrand, 64, a narrow loser in the presidential election of 1974 and parliamentary vote of 1978, has been gnawing away at Giscard's centrist support. Behind him, Communist Candidate Georges Marchais, 60, is fighting to improve on the 20.55% his party obtained in 1978. On the right, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, 48, leader of the Neo-Gaullists, has made surprising advances among conservatives and suddenly emerged as a still unlikely, but just possible, second-round challenger...