Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being pretentious," said Texas Democrat Mickey Leland, who wore a stocking cap and several shirts. "We have to keep the issue before the public." That he did: a dozen television cameras were on hand...
...thought had never darkened the detached cerebrum of the Hollywood has-been. The truth is that Reagan's unabashed enthusiasm for competition, risk and profit has given the managers of U.S. capitalism enough new spirit to carry the message right through to the next President, be he Democrat or Republican. Prosperity has been no mere conjurer's trick; it was paid for with a painful recession that was the first valley of the Reagan presidency. Since then, a few rascals like Ivan Boesky have let greed run wild, but most business people got down to work and reaffirmed that...
...wealthy Republican businessman who served as Governor from 1979 to 1983, Clements regained the office last November from Democrat Mark White, partly by accusing him of duplicity. As chairman of the board of governors of Southern Methodist University, a post he gave up when he took office in Austin, Clements assailed the S.M.U. system for permitting wealthy boosters to pay football players to perform for the Dallas school. Such practices brought the school seven citations from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violating its rules...
...Massachusetts Democrat is surprisingly well known among Democratic activists in Louisiana, according to Phillip Jones, director of party development for the Louisiana Democratic Party...
Noting that stories and photographs of the governor have appeared on the front page of the state capital's local newspaper twice in a week, Jones said Dukakis’ recognition statewide is equal to Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who has gotten more attention so far in his anticipated bid for the presidency...