Word: electable
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Much to the dismay of the cadres of social conservatives and Moral Majoritarians who helped elect Ronald Reagan, the Administration insisted last year that the most prickly proposals on the New Right agenda, such as outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while the new Government concentrated on the more pressing economic and budgetary concerns. Even now, many top officials, from the White House to Capitol Hill, would like to see these troublesome issues continue to simmer and sputter on a conveniently distant backburner. Conservative leaders, however, are in no mood to wait...
...council has yet to elect from its own ranks a mayor, who sits on the school committee and chairs council meetings. With Vellucci sick, the council decided to postpone for a week the mayoral sweepstakes...
Some compromise is necessary, however, because neither the CCA, with four councilors, nor the Independents, who without. Vellucci's support also have four votes, can alone elect a mayor...
...conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation (see box), and a dubious grasp of the details of his own programs. The performance raised new questions about Reagan's control of the presidency, which were being asked even by some of the far rightists who helped elect him. At a meeting of conservatives organized by New Right Leaders Richard Viguerie and Paul Weyrich, Reagan last week was criticized for his neglect of social issues like abortion and his fecklessness on foreign policy...
City clerk Paul Healy wielded the gavel when Monday's city council meeting began; the first order of business was to try to elect one of the nine councilors to take his place...