Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ECAC and EAIAW reached a more amicable agreement. "There was an atmosphere of trust and faith from the start," EAIAW president-elect Jane Betts said. "Ours was a very carefully orchestrated consolidation." Betts added, calling the national merger "a blatant, monopolistic takeover...
Thus when Black Americans who are an ethnic-group-of-color, back a Black candidate as a means of advancing their political presence in city, state, and federal politics they are not committing a racist act--anymore, say, than are Jews who vote as a bloc to elect New York state's first Jewish-American governor (Herbert Lehman in 1932), or Irish who vote as a bloc to elect the first Irish-American governors of Illinois (Charles Deneen--1905, Edward Dunne--1913), or Boston Irish who vote as a bloc to elect the first Irish American governor and U.S. Senator...
...Senate committee's action was one of the most serious setbacks Reagan has suffered on Capitol Hill. It stemmed in part from the 1982 elections, in which the recession helped elect Democrats, and scared Republican incumbents, making them more independent of the President...
Washington wooed members of the Democratic site-selection committee with Bavarian souffles, designer tote bags with their names inscribed and a boat trip on the Potomac. Chicago courted them with an energetic mayor-elect and a bubbly champagne brunch. Detroit, with its high unemployment and strong unions, presented itself as an ideal backdrop for Democratic issues...
...Angeles Philharmonic. With a conductor like Carlo Maria Giulini, 68, an annual budget of $17 million and record appearances on Deutsche Grammophon, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has the credentials for membership in the elect. Its sound is far from the brilliance of Chicago or St. Louis; Giulini, the eminent Italian conductor, has based the sonority he wants on the lower strings, giving the orchestra a deep, dark tone. Instead of the flashy, glittery ensemble one might expect to find in Los Angeles, the Philharmonic is a sober, serious orchestra. Like Giulini, it is at its best in the romantic...