Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, a field of six candidates is narrowed down to a two-man race. Then a front-runner is chosen by widespread media acclamation before even a single vote is cast. The remaining candidates are forced to campaign less against the favorite than against the polls which dominate the nominating procedures of both parties...
...avoid having the Executive Branch investigate itself, the law requires independent counsel to be chosen by a panel of federal judges. That transferred Executive power to the judiciary, Olson argued, which violates the Constitution's separation of powers. The appeals court majority agreed, overturning a district court's earlier ruling...
...nightmare world being enacted is not only ancient Greece but also the courtly France of 1667, where Jean Racine wrote his tragedy Andromaque, and the skinhead London of 1988, whose coarse argot has been chosen by Director Jonathan Miller to lend contemporary clout. The melange of cultures does not always work, although much else does in this hurtling two-hour, no- intermission staging. Yet Miller's production, which opened last week at London's Old Vic Theater, is an event of considerably broader consequence than a re-examination of an austere and little-produced play by one of the theater...
WHERE INDECIPHERABILITY is one frequently chosen method of self-sabotage, exclamation points are another. This is the method selected by by the neighborhood radical left-wing causes to support republicanism. If I tried consciously to make my own cause less believable to the people from whom I ask support, I couldn't think of any better way than how they...
...last hurrah at the 1968 Democratic Convention, where the barons forced the nomination of Hubert Humphrey. That provoked a spasm of reform that had stunning (and debilitating) success. The first in a series of party commissions radically altered the rules in favor of "open democracy." Increasingly, delegates chosen by primary or caucus would be bound to actual candidates rather than to party leaders who might use them in brokerage. Though the movement was a Democratic invention, Republicans were also affected because many changes were imposed by Democratic legislatures...