Word: electable
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Held ostensibly to elect mayors and councilmen in 36,400 municipalities, the election had in fact become a referendum on the Mitterrand government. Indeed, the Socialists suffered their worst losses in large cities, where campaigning had centered not on local issues or personalities but on national policy. As the results came in, Socialist cities fell like dominoes-first the Brittany port of Brest, then the champagne capital of Reims, then the major industrial center of Nantes. The most sobering and startling of all losses was in the southeastern university town of Grenoble. There Conservative Alain Carignon trounced Socialist Hubert Dubedout...
PIRGs work on issues such as environmental protection and opposing nuclear power. At some colleges, students either elect to pay PIRG fees or are required to pay but may obtain refunds. Harvard has no relationship with PIRGs...
...governor's staff and his old position of director of the Institute of Politics Forum. "There's a lot of politics involved in both." Juggling more than 100 telephone calls and 50 resumes a day, Mitropoulos says he has to keep in mind the many coalitions that helped elect Dukakis and balance them in the hiring of staff...
...White House is annoyed but not especially worried by the thunder on the far right. "When are they going to elect a more conservative President than Ronald Reagan in this century?" asks Presidential Assistant Michael Deaver. "Never." As for Phillips, Viguerie and the rest, Deaver has run out of fraternal feeling. "Screw 'em," he says, "and you can quote me." The President is far more politic but knows that his zealous conservative constituents need him more than he needs them. The 1982 elections, in which the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent $4.5 million but had scant influence, produced...
...flawed if blacks protested the agreement. Despite decades of separation and suspicion, says Taylor, "the amazing thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When adopted by U.P.C.U.S.A. in 1979, the rule led to a schism, and it is unpopular in the South. "A congregation has the right to choose its own officers," says the Rev. J. McDowell Richards, a retired P.C.U.S. seminary president and a member of the reunion...