Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The pace suddenly got quicker last week. At a church in Indianapolis, Ind., Bush laid out a detailed list of proposals--complete with a promise of $8 billion in new federal spending--aimed at expanding the role of charities, churches and community groups in helping the poor. A Republican's...
Even as he appealed to Christian conservatives by extolling the "transforming power of faith" to change lives, Bush chided his own party for hardheartedness. "We must apply our conservative and free-market ideas to the job of helping real human beings," he said, "because any ideology, no matter how right...
But the problem is, strategists are at least as harmful as they are helpful. Vice President Al Gore '69 blamed his campaign for his own early misteps, and so hired disgraced former Democratic representative Tony Coehlo to run it. And then, Coehlo hired a consultant, a tabacco company lawyer named...
If they do, they will likely nominate a moderate--the former Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr.--for instance. Gore and Bush (or whomever the Democratic and Republican nominees) will be will have to think outside the box. The candidates will have to work hard--and really distinguish themselves--in...
Compromise or confrontation? William Roth?s Senate plan takes small, negotiable bites: Reduce the 15 percent tax bracket to 14 percent and expand that bracket; ease the "marriage penalty," reduce estate taxes and increase contribution limits for IRAs. The House proposal is uncompromising swordplay -- cut the capital-gains tax and...