Word: electable
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...with a subsidy from the Government." For civil rights leaders, the decision was the culmination of an ominous series of Administration actions. Reagan has urged Congress to amend some of the key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which helped enfranchise millions of blacks and elect thousands of black officials. The Justice Department has said that it would like to find a way to overturn a Supreme Court decision allowing companies to set up voluntary affirmative action quotas for minorities and that it will not pursue busing as a method of desegregating schools...
...Students for Dukakis," who began organizing early this fall, have focused on calling registered Democrats to inform them about the February 6 caucuses, Gelfman said last week, noting that the state Democratic party will use open caucuses to elect delegates to the May 22 endorsing convention for the first time this year. "We're not looking beyond the caucuses yet," he added...
...editor of the law review. Although he once served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and an Assistant Deputy Attorney General under Eisenhower, his 30-year career has been largely devoted to private practice. Said Silverman, who is a former president of the Legal Aid Society and president-elect of the American College of Trial Lawyers: "It would be immodest of me to suggest that I am supremely qualified for [the special prosecutor's] role...
...reply, an underground Solidarity group in Silesia published a sort of manual of passive protest. Samples: "In organizing strikes, do not elect leaders, so as to avoid later police action. Work slowly, complain about the mess and the inefficiency of your superiors. Flood the army and the commissars with questions and pretend to be a halfwit. Follow meticulously the most ridiculous instructions." Every worker, it concluded, should remember these words: "I know only what I need to know." Nobody outside Poland knows to what extent these opposition efforts are succeeding, but even the government admitted last week that production...
...behavior to assassinate any person, Gaddafi said "It is the behavior of America, preparing to assassinate me, to poison my food. They tried many things to do this . . . you are a superpower. How are you afraid? America must get rid of this administration . . . as they did with Nixon, and elect another respectful President to get respect for America. . . He is silly, he is ignorant, . . . Reagan is liar." His interviewer in Tripoli, ABC's Lou Cioffi, asked Gaddafi what message he had for Reagan. "I would have to tell...