Word: democrats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilson makes no bones about being a social democrat, and his policy suggestions are correspondingly nothing if not ambitious in the context of American politics. He is not afraid to claim that helping the underclass entails an overhaul of the American economy and growth in the public sector...
...part of the Fed, especially in an election year. But Greenspan can probably muster the necessary determination if he thinks back to the early 1980s, when inflation got completely out of control and it took 20% interest rates to halt the price spiral. No one -- Republican or Democrat -- wants to experience a repeat of that episode...
Trouble started when the Bush forces refused to seat some Robertson delegates. "Fraud!" yelled Robertson Leader Richard Hines, triggering a rush toward the podium. As bodies tumbled from the stage, Sheriff Arthur Johnson, a Democrat, restored calm by confronting the factions with a personal point of order: "If there's any trouble, I will fill my jail...
Last fall it was hard not to notice Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden. The garrulous Democrat was in the spotlight as a candidate for President, and after a plagiarism scandal forced his withdrawal, he remained at center stage as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Bork hearings. But since February Joe Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with...
...opposition hasn't been firmly decided for this year since initial filing deadlines are not until Tuesday. But Democrat Jack McKay, Independent Robert Alexander and Republican Glenn Fiscus have all taken out nomination papers for the race...