Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although he is a Democrat, many of Galluccio's ideas are socially conservative...
...Bill Clinton is the most admired man in the U.S., according to a new poll. And First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton tied with Mother Teresa as the woman most admired by Americans, a CNN/USA Today poll of 1,016 American finds. The second most admired man is another controversial Democrat and lately a successful international peace maker: former President Jimmy Carter. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former first lady Barbara Bush and talk show host Oprah Winfrey occupy third, fourth, and fifth place as the people Americans admire most...
...Glickman, a Kansas Democrat who held a congressional seat for 18 years, is set to be nominated by President Clinton to replace Agriculture Sec. Mike Espy, who's resignation was announced this fall. Glickman was a member of the Agriculture Committee and was an author of the 1990 farm bill. He was swept out of office last month in the Republican landslide...
...North Korea, might be released this weekend, according to Rep. Bill Richardson, who's serving as a U.S. envoy to Pyongyang. Though North Korea has said only that Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall would be sent home "very soon" after being detained during a probe of the incident. Richardson, Democrat from New Mexico, said Hall was "in good shape and I think he'll be home before Christmas." Earlier Thursday, Richardson accompanied the casket carrying the body of the pilot killed in the incident, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, as the North Koreans handed it over at the border crossing...
Even though Treasurer Robert Citron was the only elected Democrat in the government of affluent and archconservative Orange County, California, he seemed almost to own his job. People liked his folksy habit of sending out tax bills with slogans that rhymed ("Taxes paid on time never draw fines"). And they really liked the remarkably high returns that Citron earned on the billions of dollars of county funds that he managed -- income that paid for such things as gang-busting police drives in a time of tight budgets. It was thus not surprising that Citron easily won a seventh term this...