Word: democratic
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Enter Congressman Bill Chappell, a Florida Democrat, who introduced a measure to allow importation of the M-1s. Chappell contends that a check of the rifles' serial numbers shows that they were sold, not given, to the Koreans. The Congressman said he was trying to help a business that has been victimized by an overly restrictive interpretation of the law. Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio objected that Chappell's bill was "designed to help one group of people make millions...
Koch said Kennedy had launched "a noxious assault on the First Amendment" aimed specifically at Murdoch when the Massachusetts Democrat got an amendment added, virtually unnoticed, to a spending bill last month...
...being pelted with buckshot. On the stump he is earnestly plodding and uncharismatic. Nor is his product an easy sell. His austere economic prescriptions are the political equivalent of bran flakes with skim milk: good for what ails the bloated body politic, but not the thing a liberal Iowa Democrat is likely to choose over the buttered and honeyed comfort food that others are promising. If Babbitt advances, it will mark an unlikely triumph of ideas over imagery, of candor over pandering...
Candidates, knowing that senior citizens flock to the polls with a vengeance, have responded with a gusher of saccharine rhetoric. "If we can get a man to the moon, we ought to be able to get dentures to people who built our society," went a sample line from Democrat Paul Simon at AARP's Iowa debate. The 1,000 gray-haired activists in attendance applauded noisily. On . the way out, Wally Wakefield, a retired salesman from West Des Moines, couldn't help gloating. "They came because of us," he said. "We're powerful...
...only Democrat who continues to reach out and tap the minds of the country's best thinkers, said Hart, is Bill Bradley. That kind of broader thinking, he observed, cannot be acquired during frantic election campaigns. "You can't run for President," he said, "if you don't already know what you think...