Word: democratically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Both Scott Bloch and Rep. James Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation Committee, are highly critical of the way the FAA has been overseeing the nation's airlines. Asked Monday night if the nation's air travelers have endured the worst in the latest round of groundings, Oberstar snapped: "We'll be through the worst of it when they take their customer service initiative directive and tear it up, shred it, and establish a new mind-set that is aviation safety-compliant. What they're doing now is going through the mechanics of what they should have...
Just ask the first President Bush, whose approval ratings were the very picture of political health in the spring of 1991. Then a freak accident killed Pennsylvania's GOP Senator John Heinz, and in the special election to replace him, a liberal Democrat named Harris Wofford diagnosed an unease in the electorate about endangered jobs and affordable health care. Hammering at these issues, Wofford came from more than 40 points behind to defeat Bush's formidable friend Richard Thornburgh. A year later, Bill Clinton used the same platform to unseat Bush...
...next to the Sheet Metal Workers Union at 6 p.m. and make her presentation at 6:15. Obama will arrive at 7 p.m. and make his at 7:15. You've heard the old Will Rogers line "I am not a member of any organized party; I'm a Democrat." Well, the Philadelphia Democratic Party is an organized political party...
...freedom brought nothing but disaster to our country. We believed American promises and we dreamed of a better future. Now I wish we had Saddam back so we could live in peace." Sana Abdul Rahman, a middle school teacher, is a little more hopeful, but desperately so: "Republican, Democrat, black, female; any person who comes to Iraq and makes it stable, I swear to God, I will die for him, give him a big kiss in front of millions and thank him. To the Americans, I say: Please keep your promises to us. We are very tired...
...associates of the military regime who have made no secret of their distaste for Thailand's new Prime Minister. Samak fired back, accusing Varin of political favoritism and pointing out cases in which the fortuneteller's prognostications had failed to materialize. Case in point: Varin forecast that the opposition Democrat Party, not Samak's People's Power Party, would win last December's polls...