Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the election of 1932 was not the only Democratic coup during that realignment. From 1930 to 1936, the number of Democrats in the House increased steadily from 163 to 333. Nothing of that nature has occured in the 1980s. Rather, during the last three election cycles the nation has suffered a mild case of political schizophrenia, veering from one partisan orientation to another...
That friendship is valuable not only to me; it's valuable to North Carolina," the senator says. In a veritable campaign coup, Helms, in August, persuaded Reagan to tape a 30-second television commercial in which the President solemnly proclaims: "One senator we can always count on to stand up for his beliefs is Jesse Helms. Jesse's courage on the tough issues is an inspiration for all Americans...
...week, Hunt and his aides were working feverishly to bring the focus of the race where it had never been-North Carolina. Hunt painted Helms as an out of touch crusader concerned only with national and international issues. Along this line, the Democrats sought to turn a recent Helms "coup" against him-they said that when Helms garnered the endorsements of 23 American ambassadors it showed that his interests lie far afield. Though Helms has repeatedly said that he has no interest in heading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should Charles Percy, the current chairman, lose in Illinois, Hunt supporters...
With the cutoff of voter registration for the November election set for this week in Oregon, and with fears growing of a Wasco County coup by the Rajneeshees, County Clerk Sue Proffitt took unusual action. She announced that she was automatically rejecting all new applications for voter registration. Each applicant, she said, could seek a hearing at which his or her eligibility would be decided. She was doing so, she said, to stop "organized efforts to fraudulently register people." The cumbersome process would effectively stall any massive Rajneesh registration...
...there is doubt about the real future of Ireland, the IRA will have a direct incentive for influencing every move in this fluid process in its favor. Every new proposal is greeted by a new attack, every initiative with an atrocity, every new Minister of State with a publicity coup. The most violence-free periods have been when it was quite clear that no constitutional flux was intended, no change envisaged, no new beginnings proclaimed (ironically under the Labourite Roy Mason in the late...