Word: elected
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Though the Supreme Court does sometimes "follow the election returns," the Justices more often follow the dictates of legal precedent or their own consciences. The public's only real influence on the high court comes through its power to elect Presidents, who appoint the Justices, and Senators, who confirm them. Once a Justice enters the court's sanctum, he can stay for life.* The high court that begins its traditional nine-month term this week is a gerontocracy: five of the nine Justices are 75 or older. Not since Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Nine Old Men almost...
...know Americans are more confident about things, that we're headed in the right direction, more than any time since 1972. We know that exists." Thus, he explains, "what we're trying to say is 'Elect us because we can conquer the challenges ahead.' This is not a negative message. It's saying, 'Here's what...
...Republican Convention, fundamentalist ministers were conspicuous. There was the letter by Senator Laxalt, suggesting that God wants Americans to vote Republican and that the Christian thing to do is re-elect Ronald Reagan. The President himself suggested as much. It all amounts to saying that what is desirable is the establishment of a Christian religion. What made matters worse was the implicit assertion that these views alone are true and have God's blessing, and that those who oppose them are not just misguided, but sinful, intolerant and unpatriotic as well...
...favorable opinion polls, the encouraging reports from the provinces, the heavy turnout−all signs pointed to an election victory for Brian Mulroney. Thus the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party was not especially surprised when, at 7:37 p.m., an announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. crisply declared that Mulroney would be the country's next Prime Minister. But within 15 minutes, Mulroney and many of his 25 million fellow Canadians began to realize that something extraordinary was happening. By night's end the balloting had turned into nothing less than a landslide of Rocky Mountain proportions...
Tired and hoarse, but visibly elated from his election-night triumph, the Prime Minister-elect left his home town of Bale Comeau the next day aboard Manicougan I, the Boeing 727 that served as his traveling campaign headquarters. As the plane sped west toward Ottawa, TIME Correspondent Marcia Ganger talked with Mulroney about the campaign, the economy and his vision for Canada's future...