Word: elected
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Americans elect a President, but they inevitably get his kin as well. Into the grave splendor of his new job the President's relatives intrude a certain amount of life's awkwardness, humiliation and sheer mess. At the very least, they bring a domestic realism that no manipulator of presidential image will ever succeed in expunging...
Argentine officials had nothing to say about the coup, which was immediately deplored by the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia, and by Peru's President-elect Fernando Belaúnde Terry. The Bolivian military's action was also strongly denounced by the U.S. State Department, which recalled Ambassador Marvin Weissman for "consultations" and cut off all military and economic aid to the strife-torn country...
...westward tilt of the party. The East always supplied the intellectual leadership. T.R.: If I had not gone West . . . Coolidge: What's all this talk about winning the blue-collar vote? America's business is business. Abraham Lincoln: Don't forget that the workingman's vote helped to elect the first Republican President. When we were trying to preserve the nation, the Republicans became known as the Union Party. The name is gone, but the meaning should still prevail...
...wanted to work with them. He also placated moderates by keeping Bill Brock as R.N.C. chairman. Traditionally the nominee puts his own man in the post, but Brock had won widespread support from conservatives and moderates alike for his successful efforts to broaden the party's base and elect more Republicans to state legislatures. Brock has had to relinquish some of his authority, but as long as he stays on the job, he symbolizes party unity...
...unique aspects of this program is that the innovators can elect to retain all of their patent rights. Normally, federal programs specify that any scientist receiving Government money loses his patents. But the DOE is willing to waive this rule on the grounds that the producer of a new energy-saving device will only do the work if he is guaranteed a profit payoff...