Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect opportunity, urged President Carlos Andres Perez, for his countrymen "definitely and totally" to repudiate the aborted attempt last month to topple his government. For only the second time, Venezuelans had the chance to elect directly 22 state governors and 282 mayors. People responded, all right -- by throwing their support behind the opposition. Voters' rejection of the ruling Democratic Action party was widely interpreted as a sign of dissatisfaction with Venezuela's inflated economy and political corruption. Candidates from the President's party lost four of 11 state governorships...
...early in the new president's tenure to predict how a film called Carey would play. But the current boss has at least one trait in common with Hoffa: a ferocious and relentless tendency to attack the government for trying to clean up the union. When Carey was elected a year ago on a promise to rid the union of organized crime, federal agents and prosecutors were overjoyed by the underdog's surprise victory. Now they wonder if their confidence was misplaced. "He definitely has not been a corruption fighter so far," says Edward Ferguson, who recently served...
...pact" with the Mob. The record spoke for itself. Four of the union's past seven presidents had been indicted on criminal charges; three of them (including Hoffa) went to prison. To avoid a government-imposed trusteeship, the Teamsters agreed to allow the 1.6 million members to freely elect their president. In the past, the boss had always been handpicked by a coterie of top brass...
...BILL CLINTON REalized that he didn't have to answer it. Instead he gestured toward Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to respond for him, adding with a laugh, "The great thing about having a Cabinet . . ." The sentence was incomplete, but the thought was clear: having chosen a team, the President-elect was no longer alone...
...Clinton shows scant need to surround himself with yes-men and -women. Panetta has been skeptical about the President-elect's oft promised middle-class tax cut, and Rivlin departs from Clinton orthodoxy with her suggestion that states should run public-works programs. Perhaps this will be a combative Administration after all. (See related story on page...