Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...party's leadership should alternate between representatives of English-and French-speaking regions. Since Trudeau is from Quebec, the convention would have had to break with custom to choose Chrétien. Moreover, Turner's impressive bearing and boardroom presence probably represent what the delegates feel their countrymen want in a national leader. All at the convention were conscious of the party's shift from the Trudeau era of activism and charismatic leadership. Reflecting on how different last week's proceedings were from the previous time the Liberals chose a leader, in 1968, Trudeau Aide...
...attractive politicians who have mostly been out of public life in recent years; both are lawyers with corporate experience. Neither would dismantle Canada's existing social welfare program, but both want to cut government deficits and unemployment and increase foreign investment. After calling last week on his countrymen to "reach for the stars in a land that has no horizon," Turner promised to promote his country as best...
...countrymen shared that assessment. What grated most strongly perhaps was the perception that the commemoration stressed the notion of victory rather than the theme of postwar friendship. Though a number of newspaper editorials pointed to the absence of anything resembling a vindictive tone in the ceremonies, Alois Mertes, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, suggested that the celebrations "could make the German people feel alienated, vanquished and guilty," something that might "give impetus to pacifists and neutralists who are seeking a special German role between East and West...
...countrymen participated in their freest parliamentary elections in more than 30 years, Mubarak's National Democratic Party took 73% of the vote, winning 390 of 448 elected seats. The Wafd, a 65-year-old party that was banned under Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1953, re-emerged five months ago as the New Wafd party. It obtained 58 seats, more than any other opposition group has held in three decades. Said New Wafd Assistant Secretary General Noman Gomaa: "We are happy not because of the seats we have gained, but because we have made the country feel that we exist...