Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill, CEO of Alcoa, turned down the deputy's job. Republican Senator Pete Wilson of California began whooping it up for Rand Corp. president Donald Rice, whose many qualifications include the fact that he is a close friend and golfing partner of the most influential defense expert in Congress, Democrat Sam Nunn. Rice, who flew to Washington last Wednesday, appeared to have the inside track...
Education officials and many on Capitol Hill were quick to praise the reappointment. "Clearly, this is a man who shares our views about the importance of education," said Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat. Lamar Haynes of the National Education Association, a union representing 1.6 million schoolteachers, considered the selection a "hopeful sign that perhaps Mr. Bush will fulfill his campaign promise to become the 'education President...
...populist sentiments aroused by the spectacle. "What's going on is corporate cannibalism," says Congressman Edward Markey. "We have to ask whether it is in the national interest to allow companies to go so heavily into debt." As chairman of a House subcommittee that covers finance, the Massachusetts Democrat will play a key role in drafting any legislation to curb LBO excesses when Congress reconvenes next year. But lawmakers are uncertain how to limit buyouts, or even if they should...
Since its takeover by Freedom Newspapers, Inc., the 16th largest newspaper chain, the Democrat-Times has referred to Greenville's only Black city council member as an orangutan and, following the parent company's Libertarian politics, has criticized school desegregation laws. As a result, many readers of the paper feel alienated from an institution that should, at least to some extent, represent their interests...
...Kovach resignation and the changes in The Delta Democrat-Times are just two examples of a rapidly worsening trend. One merger and acquisitions specialist who concentrates on the media has estimated that within ten years, only six corporations will own all of the American media. Newspapers, magazines and broadcasters are supposed to keep an eye on the powers-that-be; instead, big business is making the media wear corporate blinders...