Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative tide is running in some parts of Europe, Spain certainly is bucking it. For the first time since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal elections, to the delight of Prime Minister Felipe González, who likes to say that "Spain is calm, calmer than at any time since the death of General Franco." The political honeymoon still lasts, and when the boyish 41-year-old Socialist leader flies to Washington next week on his first...
...condominiums. In 1970, no condos were counted in the census, the 1980 results indicate 2191 such units 10 years later. Some are occupied by tenants who purchased their apartments as condos; others are rented by the new white-collar crowd. But together they represent almost enough votes to elect a city councilor (2504 votes was enough...
...purchase some 80 Trident submarine missiles from the U.S. Instead, Labor advocates a unilateral ban on all nuclear weapons in Britain. The party's candidates will undoubtedly get a strong boost from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which has vowed to field an army of volunteers to help elect M.P.s who endorse antinuclear policies...
Economist Wassily Leontief likens the selection to being chosen for paradise. No one can apply. The elect must be recommended by leaders in their field as fledgling scholars of great promise. For three years they pursue knowledge, free of institutional bureaucracy and the responsibility of teaching. Life is intellectually strenuous but not spartan; besides meeting for their casual, animated lunches, the scholars gather once a week to share sherry around a large table once owned by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Distinguished alumni include Economist Paul Samuelson, Poet Richard Wilbur...
...scouts, he has the footwork of a middleweight boxer. Besides Elway's passing ability, they admire his "escapability," a word with a hint of a shiver in it, evoking images of 280-lb. linemen and broken bones. Still, given his choice, Elway asserted he would never elect baseball as a safer course. In his heart, he was a football player who played baseball on the side, not the other way around...