Word: democratically
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...seen as an investment in the future. In Colorado, for example, a powerful issue in last November's gubernatorial race was how to handle an expected $434 million windfall in state tax revenues caused by federal tax reform. While the Republican nominee promised to return the money to taxpayers, Democrat Roy Romer proposed to spend it on education, highways, water projects and industrial development. He won. Says he: "I asked people, 'What's more important to you, another $18 in your pocket right now or a job for your kid when he finishes school?' The public support for state-government...
...does Dukakis, often viewed as too aloof and cerebral for national politics, have the vision to inspire Democratic voters? The son of Greek immigrants, he lacks the poetry of New York Governor Mario Cuomo. But Cuomo is not a candidate, and that leaves Dukakis as the only Northeasterner and the , only ethnic Democrat in a field further narrowed last week when Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers announced he would...
...President's policies in Central America and on Star Wars but has yet to offer a positive program other than wispy references to world peace. Nonetheless, Dukakis' pragmatic liberalism is appealing to a party searching for a post-Reagan philosophy. Pollster Geoffrey Garin contends that Dukakis is the only Democrat able to say, "I've seen the future, and I've made it work...
...increase was a victory for Congressmen from the wide open spaces of the West, where freewheeling constituents feel cooped up by the old limit. As Democrat Pat Williams of Montana explained to his more constricted colleagues, "You can stand on the highway and see the earth curve out at the end, 60 miles of straight stretch, and sometimes you traverse that entire 60 miles and you only pass two cars. My friends, on the way to talk to 20 people in Montana, I run over 15 jackrabbits." Republican Dick Cheney of Wyoming echoed his neighbor: "Our Western rural interstates...
...fast, partner, was the reply of Democrat James Howard of New Jersey. Howard, chairman of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee, has been fighting to preserve the old speed limit to preserve lives. The nation's highest rural fatality rates, he maintained, are out West: Nevada is first, followed by Utah, Alaska, Arizona and Montana. "The No. 1 cause ((of deaths)) is not drinking and driving," said Howard. "The No. 1 cause is speed...