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Word: democratically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harm you are doing by espousing the 'pro-choice' view will require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special election for California's state senate. He then applied a little used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the decree but will not change her position. She is the first political candidate to receive this censure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abortion: A Bishop Says No | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Foley had not asked for an Air Force Three (the President and Vice President have much larger jets). Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha had inserted the provision. He enjoys luxurious travel and undoubtedly figured he could borrow Foley's jet. The Speaker quickly shot down his own plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: The Crash of Air Force Three | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...governor would be to deny my deepest responsibilities to myself and to those I love," said Tsongas, a Democrat. "A quest for public office based on this denial would have not worked. It would have eventually collapsed of its own contradiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Senator Tsongas Says He Will Not Run for Governor | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...prevalent interpretation is that Wilder was forced to eke out such a narrow victory only because he was a black candidate. The most common benchmark is to measure Wilder's vote against the come-from-behind 54% to 46% triumph of Democrat Donald Beyer over Edwina ("Eddy") Dalton in the battle for Lieutenant Governor. What gives piquancy to this comparison is that Beyer, a Volvo dealer and political neophyte, was running against the widow of a former Governor. "Wilder would have won a victory similar to Beyer's if he had been white," contends Sabato. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breakthrough In Virginia Dougas Wilder | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...either of us -- a conclusion, incidentally, that every Chinese leader I met rejects -- we still have a strong strategic interest in restoring a good relationship with the P.R.C. President Bush will go head-to-head with Gorbachev in the Mediterranean on Dec. 2. Gorbachev is not a closet democrat, a philanthropist or a fool. His handshake will be warm, but based on his past record we can assume that he will have a card or two up his sleeve. We should never treat China as a card. But it would not serve our interests if Gorbachev were able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Advice from a Former President | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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