Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gloria Allred, a Los Angeles attorney and women's rights activist. Predictions like that will come true, however, only if abortion is made into the kind of litmus test that it has already become for many pro-lifers. Can pro-choice supporters be made single-issue voters, who will elect a candidate who shares their views on abortion even if they disagree with him on defense, taxes or the environment...
...people choose. But Wright became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill thought and acted...
After the talks, Bush wound up lending qualified support to the one modestly promising part of Shamir's four-point proposal: allowing Palestinians in the occupied territories to elect representatives to negotiate with Israel for some limited "interim" self-rule, as promised more than a decade ago in the Camp David accords. While Shamir again repeated that Israel would never leave those areas, Bush did insist that the U.S. regards any such negotiations as just a first step toward a settlement. But Shamir felt his basic objectives were satisfied. "The Americans certainly don't agree with all of our policies...
...evidence might suggest that the answer to all these questions is "never." Nonetheless we see hope. We see hope in the movement of alumni/ae to elect progressive, pro-divestment overseers. We see hope in the continuing student movements for divestment, to support union workers, against Central American intervention, for women's, minority and gay and lesbian rights. We know that without these movements--if we had to trust to the social conscience and tender mercies of the Harvard Corporation and administration--the outlook would be grim indeed. We are proud of our history, proud of those who continue the battle...
...knew for certain that several years ago it would have been inconceivable that Razhev would be named director of the factory against the will of the city party committee. It would have been even more difficult to imagine that a collective of workers would have the right to elect...