Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bureaucracy from the budget hawks. Cohen is highly regarded on both sides of the aisle as a bridge builder who can meld judicious compromises on contentious issues. A sure sign of his appeal is the fact that Republican John Warner praises him for holding the line against cuts while Democrat Sam Nunn lauds him for his fiscal discipline...
...Senate, Thompson had little patience for chasing the money it takes to get elected. Bouncing along dark Tennessee roads from one fund raiser to the next, he would give his campaign manager, Bill Lacy, long disquisitions on the flaws of the current system. An underdog against a better-financed Democrat, Thompson was finally exasperated enough by conventional campaigning to don battered boots and lease a red pickup to travel the state talking about how "Ol' Fred" would bring common sense to Washington. Voters loved the whole bit, even when it came from a rich lawyer with a Washington lobbying practice...
...democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...
...ever a statistic reflected Americans' disenchantment with their government, this is it. Sadly, most Americans view the system as broken. Worse, they see little or nothing they can do to fix it by voting, so they stay home in droves. It is small wonder that voters put a Democrat in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress. We call it damage control...
This year's orientation will include presentations from both Republican and Democrat leaders...