Word: democratization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baby-talking commercials and the simplistic Astrodome-vs.-Armageddon rhetoric give an illusion of clarity to what is still an arcane subject. "The quality of the debate hasn't been very good," says Democrat Dicks. For their part, the anti-SDI forces say they welcome complexity. "If you oversimplify Star Wars, it sounds terrific," says Squier. "The more they explain it, the worse it sounds...
...absurdly complicated and loophole-ridden income tax law. The President put his name behind another, more modest plan known as Treasury II last May and promoted it with whistle-stop tours around the U.S. But the tax-reform movement slowed to a crawl until a month ago, when Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, the Ways and Means chairman, started engineering the new proposal. "We have done," he boasts, "what many people thought couldn't be done...
...crisis in 1986, domestic or foreign, will become inextricably tangled in the rising partisan rhetoric of a midterm election year. Much as Reagan wants the Republicans to retain control of the Senate, where they hold a 53-47 majority, as a counterweight to the Democrat-run House, he knows that doing so will be no easy task. Two-thirds of the 34 Senate seats at stake in 1986 are held by Republicans. In the House, the Democrats are expected to retain, and perhaps strengthen, their 253-182 advantage...
...available only eight specially equipped helicopters to transport the rescue force when "at least" ten were needed. Today the Air Force has only seven. Although the Pentagon has ordered ten more, "the main transport programs are hopelessly behind schedule and over cost," charges Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. "We are only slightly more prepared to carry out the Iranian hostage rescue mission today than we were when it failed...
Since his election in 1983 as Chicago's first black mayor, Democrat Harold Washington has been entangled in an epic feud with the party's long-entrenched regulars, led by Alderman Edward Vrdolyak. The result has been legislative paralysis, with the 21 city council votes that Washington controls more than canceled out by the 29 loyal to Vrdolyak. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered special aldermanic elections on March 18 that will probably narrow the margin and could give the mayor the decisive votes. The balloting could ultimately deliver the coup de grace to Chicago's once formidable Democratic...