Word: democratization
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Catching flak has always been part of a political party chairman's job description. But the fire usually comes from the other party. The nicest thing many Democrats could find to say last week about their chairman, Howard Dean, was that he still had a lot to learn. Practically every nationally known Democrat from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards seemed to be distancing themselves from Dean and his incendiary comments--asserting that many Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives" and that the G.O.P. is "pretty much a white, Christian party...
...less than double the old figure and a fraction of the size of the 9/11 group. (The NRC regards the exact number as an official secret.) "The NRC has taken only baby steps to improve security at the nation's nuclear plants," Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, told TIME last week...
...some experts think Summers may still have a shot at Fed chair if a Democrat occupies the White House when the post next becomes vacant...
...while, Summers remained a dyed-blue Democrat...
...leaders of groups ranging from the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the liberal AFL-CIO had been meeting secretly for seven months because they were worried about the sketchy, inefficient quality of American health care and wanted to figure out a proposal for universal coverage. Two weeks earlier, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Newt Gingrich, the yin and yang of politics in the 1990s, announced that they had found common ground on the issue as well. The renewed search for a comprehensive health-care solution reflects a deeper tide of concern in corporate America over the debilitating costs...