Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Howell Heflin, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, is the epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
...Somalia earlier this month, immediately threatened to withdraw its 2,400 troops unless the goals of the mission were reassessed. The Germans, who have sent only 250 of a promised 1,700-strong contingent, grumbled that it was a mistake to have soldiers in Somalia at all. In Washington, Democrat Robert Byrd thundered a warning that "the Senate has not bought into a police action against Somali warlords...
Officials in the offices of the state's two United States senators indicated their bosses did not have opinions on Weld's proposal. State Sen. Michael Barrett '70, a Democrat who represents Cambridge, was in western Massachusetts campaigning for governor yesterday and could not be reached for comment...
Like most any president, Clinton was elected partly because of his campaign promises. To observers, Clinton seemed like a liberal stripe of New Democrat--someone truly trying to relive the Roosevelt legacy. His ideas were particularly appropriate to the depressed economic times. But his actions have not spoken as loud as his words...
Attack ads aren't solely a Republican domain, although you'd think so, to hear the complaints of campaign reform crusaders. That's not because Democrats can't wage successful negative ad campaigns; when he ran for the Senate in '92, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone launched a brilliant ad initiative against incumbent Republican Rudy Boschwitz...