Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote of 57 to 0, with five abstentions, Gemayel won the election. Even before the tally was read out, his followers launched a celebration as raucous as the fusillades that had saluted departing Palestinian fighters all week. Gunmen all over East Beirut fired their weapons into the air. Others detonated grenades in empty lots, while cars roared up and down the streets flying Lebanese flags and waving huge pictures of the President-elect. Gemayel held court at the family home, a 300-year-old estate at Bikfaya in the mountains northeast of Beirut, for two days before returning...
When James Gaius Watt was in the third grade in Lusk, Wyo. (pop. 1,800), his mother organized a club called the Five Rabbits, which consisted of the five Watts. "We'd elect officers," says Lois Watt, now 71, "and the kid that got to be president held office for a month." That formality, Lois Watt says, was the way she and her husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth...
...this fall, students and administrators alike will launch a new student government; one which at least on paper has more power, more money, more accountability to the student body which will elect it, and the recognition of the faculty...
...spend $1 billion on new equipment through the 1980s. The payroll saving would be used to buy stock in a new, worker-owned company, and that stock would be put up as collateral to get capital loans from banks. "The report left me very optimistic," says Walter Bish, president-elect of Weirton's Independent Steelworkers Union. "Especially," he adds, "when you look at the only available alternative, which is to close down the plant and leave everybody without...
Despite nine months on the campaign trail, Miguel de la Madrid remains shy and unaccustomed to public speaking. Throughout an interview with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth and Reporter Laura López, the President-elect nervously moved his feet and twiddled his thumbs. Nonetheless De la Madrid's answers were confident and direct. Excerpts...