Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear satellite since 1977, relying instead mostly on solar-powered models. But Pentagon officials are planning the eventual use of atomic spacecraft in the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Government's proposed space-based defense system. To prevent that idea from going any further, U.S. Representative George Brown, a California Democrat, introduced a bill in Congress last week that would bar American nuclear-power sources from space -- on the unlikely condition that the Soviets do so first. The only exceptions: projects like moon bases or trips to other planets...
Jimmy Carter had far more difficulty with another Democrat, the late Henry Jackson, than with most Republicans. Likewise, Ronald Reagan's diplomatic appointees encountered more opposition in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from the G.O.P.'s own Jesse Helms than from the soporifically temperate senior Democrat, Claiborne Pell. In 1985 Helms held up the confirmation of Reagan's Ambassador to China, Winston Lord, for more than three months, preventing him from being at his post when then Vice President George Bush visited Beijing...
Congressmen are not devoid of humility, and some legislators recognize that if it were not for a few lucky breaks, they would be back home peddling insurance. One Democrat ridicules a colleague from an adjoining district as "scared of his shadow." The explanation: "He knows that he's at the pinnacle of his life, and if he ever lost this job, he could never live like this again...
...given to many people to have a second chance to lead a nation," observed Jamaica's fiery social democrat Michael Manley last week. He said it with a nice touch of humility, but with forgivable satisfaction as well, for he had just been given exactly that. His People's National Party (PNP), which he led as Prime Minister from 1972 to 1980, thrashed Prime Minister Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labor Party by winning at least 44 of 60 parliamentary seats. In a remarkable show of conciliation, the charismatic and often feisty Manley called on party members to "take this victory...
...instead of clear priorities, the President offered a clutter of programs, almost all marginal adjustments in the status quo. By awkwardly trying to match the concerns of a liberal Democrat with the means of a parsimonious Republican, Bush ended up with an incoherent philosophy that might be dubbed Reaganomics with a human face...