Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Foster says she sees herself as bucking social expectations. "For too long people have said that if you're black or a woman you must be a Democrat," says Foster. "Now if I'm against abortion, why should I ally myself with a party that continues to promote abortion...
...There is a general sense of acquiescence in ideological feeling with the people on whom they are reporting," Buckley said. "It is a known fact that 70 percent of the press voted Democrat two elections...
...young lawyer, as written by Albee, is consistently antagonistic and too intolerant of A's harmless prejudices. When A refers to "smart, little Jews" and black servants knowing their place, C sputters ridiculously, "I'm a Democrat!" This complete lack of understanding of the vagaries which accompany old age seems inappropriate in a 26-year-old. However, this hostility forms a good contrast to the hopeful young beauty of the second act. Christina Rouner gives a satisfactory performance, but she overplays both the toughness of the first act and the lightness of the second. Due to the flat tonality...
...reason is that Congress's preferred tactic when confronted with knotty foreign policy problems is to make lots of noise but leave the hard calls to the President. "If he succeeds, they'll praise him; if he fails, they'll criticize him," said Representative Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat. A Republican congressional staff member was even more blunt. "If the Commander in Chief wants to hang himself," he said, "who are we to take away his rope...
...Senator (Pete Domenici), one of Clinton's top economic advisers (Laura D'Andrea Tyson), a Cabinet member (Labor Secretary Robert Reich), a specialist on minority economics (Margaret Simms of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), a conservative economist (Stephen Moore from the Cato Institute) and a New Democrat (Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute...