Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago has been frantic, a new pot of gold for plungers who bet on feast or famine. This cursed drought has brought them a bonanza. Soybeans, for instance, are now selling at about $10 per bu., nearly double the price of just six months ago. God must be a Democrat, somebody muttered near the White House. He surely is showing Ronald Reagan and George Bush, as he did all those who went before them, that the only workable farm policy ever devised was left in the Garden of Eden along with some other innocence...
...what a candidate, particularly a Democrat, least wanted to do in an election year: raise taxes. After two months of dodging Massachusetts' now $400 million deficit, Michael Dukakis took a step that will allow the G.O.P. to hound him unmercifully: he signed a 5% sales tax on cigarettes, worth $40 million next year, and supported a measure to raise $75 million by aligning the state tax code with federal...
...That boom in financial transactions gave Massachusetts a $140 million budget surplus in 1987. The bill came due this spring, when tax revenue from the windfall dried up and the state found itself in the red. Similar scenarios have unfolded in New York and California, where fellow Democrat Mario Cuomo and Republican George Deukmejian each face deficits in the neighborhood of $1 billion...
...appointment] will certainly make the Dartmouth Board uniquely sensitive to education issues. And his resume is a golden one with broad political views, as he worked under both Ford, a Republican, and Carter, a Democrat...
When Virginia Republicans convened in Roanoke last week and picked black Businessman Maurice Dawkins to run for the U.S. Senate, they handed him the dubious opportunity of serving as a sacrificial lamb in a contest against the state's most popular and best-financed Democrat: ex-Governor Charles S. Robb. A Chicago native and onetime preacher with a rousing hellfire brand of oratory, Dawkins, 67, captured the nomination by getting more votes than two white candidates combined. Declaring that he would run a "conservative" but not a "black" campaign, Dawkins, a former Democrat who left the party in 1972, declined...