Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formally assumes office on Dec. 1, De la Madrid is expected to keep a low profile as he prepares a plan to deal with Mexico's growing problems, including oil-boom inflation (currently running at an annual rate of 60%), widespread poverty and rampant corruption. Meanwhile, the President-elect is preparing to address another important subject in the fall, when, according to sources in Mexico, he will meet with President Ronald Reagan...
From the day he became president-elect to his four-year botching of the energy issue to his handling of the 1980 campaign, Carter emerges as out-of-touch with longtime Democratic officials, willing to preside over the disintegration of his party's grand coalition and too proud to ask lesser-ranking Democrats for advice. On major issues, he was similarly misguided. White describes Carter's practice of poring over 1000-plus page military budget documents. He concludes that by mid-term, Carter, amazingly, had become the White House's chief researcher and goofball aide Hamilton Jordon its chief policymaker...
...supporters vowed vengeance for the amendment's defeat. The National Women's Political Caucus issued a "dirty dozen" list of state legislators, all male, who "roadblocked the Equal Rights Amendment." More constructively, they pledged to elect women to office in far greater numbers. Said Goucher College Student Anna Maria Halkousis: "In America, over half the population is female, but we are not the better half and not even the other half. In government, we are still the missing half...
...abroad--adding new Third World recruiting teams--it has a long list of illustrious foreign alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau graduated from the school in 1948; Singapore's Premier Lee Kuan Yew was a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1968 and 1970; and Mexico's President-elect Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received...
...apparently the same characteristics that carned Boteler the Tenth Award convinced her teammates to elect her co-captain along with Marlene Schoofs...