Word: democratization
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...rather invest the money elsewhere. This time most companies have kept quiet--in part, congressional sources say, because they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known to have a long memory. "The White House is pressuring them," says Congressman Bob Matsui, a California Democrat who is a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and who is close to Silicon Valley technology interests. "[But] I don't know of any group of businesses that are pushing this thing...
...really can't believe it," said Hale Championlecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School ofGovernment and a lifelong Democrat. "He reallytook the nomination only because Independents canvote in the the Democratic party...
...reactions to most things were the reactions of the local people in the Islamic world,” Gutas said. “They were not the typical Western reactions. She was a great democrat at heart, but saw the actions of Western governments as contrary to that...
...panelist, Tim Roemer, a Democrat who just retired from Congress, complained in a statement he issued last month as a member of the House-Senate panel that the congressional probe suffered because such officials as Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Condoleezza Rice "were not questioned directly about issues related to the Sept. 11 attacks." A Rumsfeld spokesman refused to "speculate on what participation will be extended" to the commission...
More fundamentally, a failure to study black history is a failure to study history (or most other subjects) in any meaningful way. In politics, for instance, one cannot understand the rise of the Democratic Party after the Great Depression, the switch of the South from Democrat to Republican in the past 40 years, the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and most recently the ousting of Trent Lott from his party’s leadership without analyzing the impact of Blacks on American politics...