Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even a Democrat-controlled, Al Gore-inspired Congress would shrink from passing draconian emissions-control measures. And the current Republican House and Senate are unlikely to consider such regulations no matter how many scientists are convinced that global warming is real. Other industrial nations probably won't do much better, and poor countries can't afford to try. A more realistic strategy, some scientists argue, is to spend what research money there is figuring out how best to deal with global warming when it comes. It's already too late, they say, to do much else...
Congressman Mel Reynolds, the Rhodes scholar whose political rise created a wave of optimism in Chicago's black communities, may spend the rest of the decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...
...across the border in Nebraska, Gov. Ben Nelson, a Democrat, is worried. "I'm extremely concerned that in their haste to balance the budget back there they'll but the budget down here," he said...
...Like any democrat worth his salt, Lee has turned his back on the powers that be to seek a mandate from the people. And on the surface, he seems to have succeeded. In 1991, his Democrats won 12 of 18 directly elected seats in the legislature. When Patten opened the local councils to direct election last year, the Democrats won 75 of 346 seats, the single largest block. The three pro-China parties together won only 66, despite substantial backing from big business and the mainland. This week, Lee's party again beat the pro-Beijing groups...
...Persian Gulf war helped Bush's credibility, but when that euphoria faded, the 1992 election left the way open for President Clinton's claim that he was a "new Democrat," D'Amato said...