Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since becoming the first Democrat to announce his candidacy for the state's highest office in April 1993, Barrett has had to deflect accusations that he and the governor are too much alike...
...Gray, a Democrat, is assigned the task ofdevising plan to restore Aristide to power.Aristide, who was democratically elected, iscurrently living in exile in Washington, D.C.after being forced out of the country by a Haitianmilitary coup two years...
...Massachusetts Democrat also voted for an amendment which says that educational institutions cannot use funds provided by the act for the purpose of "encouraging or lifestyle alternative." A third controversial amendment supported buy Kennedy said that federal aid would be halted toschools that do not "continuously" teachabstinence as the only effective-protectionagainst unwanted pregnancy and AIDS...
...Labor Department is suing; so far, Pacific has made good on retirees' pensions; two weeks ago, Maxxam agreed to a $52 million settlement of a suit by shareholders dissatisfied with the takeover of Pacific.) Hurwitz also boosted the rate of old-growth logging; as Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, put it, "looting the forest, meeting monthly interest payments by cutting thousand-year-old trees." Is there a moral issue here? A Maxxam spokesman dismisses the question, saying, "Our position is that sufficient redwoods are protected and that our trees are private property." (Redwood National Park, 50 miles...
Republicans licked their chops over their victory in a special congressional election in which Republican Ron Lewis beat out Democrat Joe Prather for a Kentucky seat that had been Democratic for more than a century. Political analysts, as well as some Democrats, echoed the G.O.P. claim that the Democratic defeat underscored dissatisfaction with President Clinton...