Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white male who probably would have received the V.P. nod had Mondale played it safe). But there is a risk: the slightest hesitancy or overaggressiveness in manner, any fumbled response to a question or verbal gaffe will be enormously magnified. Ferraro is a streetwise campaigner who has won three elections to Congress as a liberal Democrat from Archie Bunker's district in Queens. (She likes to say, "Archie didn't elect me. Edith did.") But she is untested in a national campaign...
...Berlinguer died on June 11, Italy reacted with a nationwide outpouring of sorrow that carried the Italian Communist Party to its finest electoral hour: a first-place finish, ahead of the rival Christian Democrats in the voting for the European Parliament. Last week, as the party elders met to elect Berlinguer's successor as Secretary-General, they apparently saw wisdom in continuity: they chose Alessandro Natta, 66, a longtime Berlinguer loyalist...
...paper was ridiculed for some erratic early editing decisions: the first issue reported the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page 9, and another early issue headlined the "news" MEN, WOMEN: WE'RE STILL DIFFERENT. But USA Today has steadily become more conventionally informative. The 375 editorial staffers, headquartered in an office tower in Rosslyn, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, assemble hundreds of items per issue, only a handful of them more than 500 words long. Yet the consumer-oriented daily "Money" section solidly covers business and economics, and the editorial page imaginatively devotes its space...
Many Democrats began to breathe easily again, but relief is premature. True, Jackson is unlikely to sit out the election this fall, if for no other reason than that he wants to register voters to elect black officials at the state and local level. But the essential issue remains unresolved: how to give Jackson the respect he so avidly seeks and thinks he deserves. Jackson tends to equate his cause with that of blacks in general. He says he wants respect not only for himself but "for what I represent." He believes that a snub to him is a snub...
...that just might catch a picture of the grass-roots trends in Western Europe. But the image that developed last week was blurred and distorted, a reflection of a Continent scowling and at odds with itself. Voters from the ten-nation European Community had gone to the polls to elect 434 members of the European Parliament, the largely ineffectual assembly that holds fading hopes of linking national politics to a united Europe. If the 60% turnout was low by European standards, voters could hardly be blamed: the campaign had focused on narrow national issues, largely ignoring the Continent...