Word: democrats
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...Refuge, one of the last large tracts of U.S. wilderness virtually untouched by man. The proposal, which has the support of President Bush, has passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but it may be delayed by the Prince William Sound disaster. Says Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat: "The Exxon Valdez spill illustrates in a devastating way how delicate the environment of Alaska can be and how impotent we are to protect it from our own mistakes." Ironically, America's worst oil spill occurred just four days before the tenth anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident that...
...Russian intellectual, by his very nature a liberal and a democrat, is arrayed against the Russian nationalist, who is always trying to trample into the ground what the democrats...
...WHEN Democrat Frank Rizzo ran Philadelphia from the mayor's office in the 1970s, people called him a bully. A former cop and police commissioner in the late 1960s, Rizzo was renowned for using his power to bash those whom he once called "bleeding hearts, dangerous radicals, pinkos and faggots...
While the whip's basic job is to count votes, getting a sense of where lawmakers stand on an issue, Gingrich is more likely to use the post as a bully pulpit for his legendary Democrat bashing. In 1984 Gingrich enraged then Speaker Tip O'Neill by vehemently accusing Democratic lawmakers of blindness to the Communist threat. It was Gingrich who fomented the House Ethics Committee's investigation of O'Neill's successor, Jim Wright of Texas. In a characteristically antagonistic oratorical flourish, Gingrich accused Wright, as well as other Democratic leaders, of having a "Mussolini-like...
...gentleman's agreement" with Congress to allot $4.5 million a month in humanitarian aid to the Nicaraguan contras for the next eleven months while diplomats work at pushing the Sandinista regime toward democracy. The bargain ends, for the moment at least, a fractious eight-year battle between the Democrat-controlled Congress and the Executive Branch over how to handle Central America. The product of intense lobbying by Secretary of State James Baker, the agreement to fund the contras but not any more fighting may mark a sea change in U.S. policy. "I think we all have to admit," said Baker...