Word: democratically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...earlier served as chief American negotiator in START talks aimed at limiting strategic nuclear missiles. He told the committee that his firm provided both Martin Marietta and LTV with information on the impact a separate INF treaty banning medium-range missiles might have on their businesses. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin suggested those contacts might create the appearance that Tower had leaked to the contractors secret information about the U.S. arms negotiating position. No, said Tower, he provided only "a sort of academic speculation on what was likely to happen." But why would the contractors pay so much for mere "speculation...
...chamber applauded loudly when Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.) told colleagues in a rousing speech before the vote, "Each member of this House, Democrat and Republican, is worth a salary of $135,000 a year...
...Friday 87.5 points higher than the week before. Moreover, after years of sleepy meetings with Ronald Reagan, the Congressmen could barely contain their enthusiasm for the more engaged Bush. Many seemed astonished that a President could think and talk extemporaneously. "He didn't need a prepared text," marveled Philadelphia Democrat Bill Gray...
...high-powered names inevitably encourages conspiracy theories about evangelical political designs. But, in fact, the movement crosses partisan lines and remains rigorously nonpolitical. "There is a religious right that is very prominent, just as there was a very activist religious left in the '60s," says Don Bonker, a liberal Democrat from Washington State who just gave up his House seat for an unsuccessful Senate run. "But the prayer movement doesn't get into political matters. If it did, I wouldn't be involved." When it comes to politics, those who pray together do not necessarily stay together...
Pioneered in the 1950s by Louis Kelso, a San Francisco lawyer and economist, ESOPs were slow to catch on. But Kelso eventually created a fertile financial climate for his idea by enlisting the support of Russell Long, the populist Democrat from Louisiana. Before retiring from the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, Long initiated more than 20 bills to encourage creation of ESOPs...