Word: democratically
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...master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president-not simultaneously...
James Abourezk, 43, one of 14 Lebanese-Americans in South Dakota, is a relaxed, informal politician who finds the U.S. Senate a bit too stuffy. Liberal Democrat Abourezk (pronounced Aber-esk) decided to study law at 32, went to Congress at 39 and, after a single term, captured his Senate seat in 1972. Besides being the Senate's most forceful spokesman for the Arab cause in the conflict over a Palestinian state, Abourezk, who was born on a Sioux reservation and knows more about the American Indian than any of his 99 colleagues, is chairman of the Senate...
...Bennett Johnston Jr., 42, a conservative Democrat from northern Louisiana, began his climb in his state's house of representatives a decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...Jordan, 33, was a young physician in charge of a Jersey City drug-rehabilitation center in the late 1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971, Democrat Jor dan won a special election to become the youngest mayor in Jersey City history and end the corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront...
Richard F. Kneip, 41. In the past two years Governor Kneip, a Democrat, has trimmed South Dakota's executive branch from 160 departments to 14, set up a state personnel system